Former Air Force Secretary Says Nobody in Pentagon Wants President Trump’s Space Force

The former Secretary of the Air Force says the military’s top brass doesn’t support President Donald Trump’s plan to create a Space Force.

“None of them are in favor of a Space Force, I say none of the top leaders, but they’re stuck. The President has said it and it will be interesting to see how they now deal with it,” Deborah Lee James, who was Secretary of the Air Force in the Obama Administration, said Monday at a Brookings Institution discussion about the newest proposed branch of the U.S. military.

Last month, Trump announced plans to create a new branch of the U.S military service he dubbed the Space Force – meant to be equal to the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard.

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