{"id":490653,"date":"2018-06-26T08:28:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T12:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2803d5683404ed67993bb7c1ebc349fc"},"modified":"2018-06-26T08:28:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T12:28:51","slug":"donald-trumps-space-forcethe-dangerous-militarisation-of-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=490653","title":{"rendered":"&#8203;Donald Trump&#8217;s space force&mdash;the dangerous militarisation of outer space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent speech, President Donald Trump announced a new policy for the American space programme. It is time, he argued, for America to create a &#8220;Space Force&#8221;. As ever, the policy announcement was full of glittering ideas but short on detail, largely unspecific and even inaccurate. What we do know is that this would be a new and separate military command, &#8220;equal&#8221; to the American Airforce. But like much of Trumpian vision, superlative expressions shroud reality and do great injustice to the serious issues at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent speech, President Donald Trump announced a new policy for the American space programme. It is time, he argued, for America to create a &#8220;Space Force&#8221;. As ever, the policy announcement was full of glittering ideas but short on detail, largely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490654,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490653\/revisions\/490654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}