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The Final Frontier? Trump’s Pricey Plan For A New Space Force

by | Jun 19, 2018

President Trump surprised his audience at the National Space Council yesterday when he announced that he would create a new “Space Force” to be “separate but equal” to the US Air Force. Congress must act to create a new branch of military service, but will the power of the military lobbyists win the day? Is “dominating” space really a matter of critical national security, as Trump claimed, or is this another costly boondoggle? Tune in to today’s Liberty Report:

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  • Daniel McAdams

    Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.

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