Space Is Dangerous, but Is Space Force the Answer?
Angry Planet20 Aug 2018

Space Is Dangerous, but Is Space Force the Answer?

Humanity has never been farther from home than the moon (and that was nearly 50 years ago), but the United States may soon be getting its own Space Force. So, what are the dangers a Space Force is meant to grapple with? And what would it do that isn’t being done now by the Air Force and the other services?


The War Zone’s Joseph Trevithick joins us to explain that the dangers in space are very real, even if it isn’t clear that a Space Force is the answer.


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