President Trump signed into law legislation creating the U.S. Space Force and said that "space is the world's newest warfighting domain. Amid grave threats to our national security, American superiority in space is absolutely vital. We're leading, but we're not leading by enough, and very shortly, we'll be leading by a lot."
Trump knows China's military is crushing us in space
→
In contrast to the growing space weapons threat from overseas adversaries, the newly created U.S. Space Force has a single declared weapon: an electronic jammer and boasts no anti-satellite missiles.
China's orbiting hypersonic missile part of growing space-based arsenal, DIA warns
→