When are we getting rid of the space force?

[misanthrope]

13. Sort of, I guess

It sounded as if it was in the pipeline anyway pre-Trump and would have happened with a fraction of the fanfare and folderol had it not been for Trump's determination to go down as "the Father of Space Force."

What it reminded me of was the famed SR-71 Blackbird. I seem to recall that when the US Air Force wanted to develop a long-range reconnaissance plane, they started development and then found out Lockheed had already been working on a nearly identical project for the CIA (the A-12) with similar requested parameters.

So you had two agencies, wasting resources developing the same project simultaneously because of the secrecy and rivalry in the government apparatus. Inefficiencies and waste like that are probably all over the DOD and related agencies.