President Trump said Monday that he would direct the Defense Department and the Pentagon to create a new "Space Force" — an independent sixth branch of the armed forces.
Trump has floated this idea before — in March, he said he initially conceived it as a joke — but has offered few details about how the Space Force would operate. Several experts noted that an act of Congress is required to establish a new branch of the military.
Trump said Monday that the branch would be "separate but equal" from the Air Force and that Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would oversee its creation.
"It is not enough to have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space," Trump said, adding that he didn't want to see "China and other countries leading us."
Dunford's staff acknowledged Trump's comments in a statement Monday afternoon, pledging to work closely with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis's office, other Defense Department officials and Congress to "implement the President's guidance."
"Space is a warfighting domain, so it is vital that our military maintains its dominance and competitive advantage in that domain," the statement said.
And a spokeswoman for Mattis said in a statement that Pentagon officials "understand" the guidance.
"Our Policy Board will begin working on this issue, which has implications for intelligence operations for the Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy," Dana White said without elaborating.
"Working with Congress, this will be a deliberate process with a great deal of input from multiple stakeholders."
The Outer Space Treaty, which the United States signed in 1967, bars states from testing weapons and establishing military bases on the moon and other celestial bodies.
It also prohibits the placement of weapons of mass destruction in orbit around Earth. Both China and Russia are signatories to the treaty. But the treaty has no enforcement mechanism .
John Logsdon, a space policy expert and professor emeritus at George Washington University, said that the treaty is generally interpreted as barring only "aggressive" military activity in space and would not prohibit the creation of a Space Force.
The idea goes back at least a year to a proposal by Reps. Mike D. Rogers (R-Ala.) and Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.).
Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces, and Cooper, the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, argued that it made sense to have a "Space Corps," a separate branch of service with its own four-star general serving on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Under their plan, it would have reported to the Department of the Air Force, in similar fashion to how the Marine Corps reports to the Department of the Navy.
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