Space Farce? The Challenges of Creating a New Military Department in Just 2 Years

CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics · Aug 10, 2018 · 15m

CQ editor Patrick B. Pexton talks with writer Andrew Clevinger about

all the steps needed to create the Space Force. The biggest challenge?

A two-year NDAA, waiting on the president's desk to sign when he

returns from his golf vacation, has no extra funds for such an

ambitious enterprise that critics say isn't even necessary to protect

the United States from space-based threats.

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