

Meanwhile, six day later across the Tsushima Strait, Japan’s prime minister Yoshihide Suga called for the JSDF to extend its focus beyond conventional warfare and increase its focus on new domains such as space and cyberspace. Chief of Space Operations General John Raymond meet in Hawaii (Republic of Korea Air Force) space operations education and training to improve their combined space operational capabilities and to better jointly respond to space threats.” ROK Air Force Chief of Staff General Lee Seong-yong and U.S. to expand the number of South Korean airmen taking part in the U.S. Chief of Space Operations General John Raymond, the South Korean Air Force released a statement assertingthat: After a meeting of the ROK Air Force Chief of Staff General Lee Seong-yong and U.S. On 22 nd November, South Korea agreed to increase cooperation with the US over space defense issues. Now, many of America’s key allies are following in tandem. Its establishment followed an increasing focus on space by the US defense establishment which came as a result of a similar increase in focus by key adversaries such as Russia and China. More and more, the sentiment is that the Space Force is here to stay. The Space Force is well on its way to become a fully operational branch by next year and there is no reason to expect the Biden administration to try to fold the youngest service back into the air force.
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Perhaps tellingly, typing in “Space Force” in Google will bring up the Wikipedia page for the satirical TV show higher on the search results than that for the actual military branch.įast forward to 2020 and the situation has changed somewhat.

Everything from its camouflage uniforms to its Star-Trek-like seal served as fuel for memes and the media with only a few public voices like Neil deGrasse Tyson arguing in favor of its establishment. When the Space Force was unveiled last year, it was met with a barrage of ridicule.
