KERA's Think

Why We Actually Do Need Space Force


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The new Space Force military branch has been ridiculed, but the reality is future warfare won’t be fought on the ground. W.J. Hennigan covers the Pentagon and national security for Time Magazine, and he joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the new military branch charged with defending American GPS, communications, weather and missile-warning systems – and why battling its critics is currently job number one. His article is “America Really Does Have a Space Force. We Went Inside to See What It Does.”
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