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据spacedaily2019年12月16日报道,特朗普政府和美国国会正讨论在美空军设立一个业务机构“美国航天部队”，用于制止空间冲突。就像海军陆战队作为美海军组成部分一样，“美国航天部队”将作为美空军组成部分。随着时间的推移，该部队将成为独立的军队分支机构。美国国家空间委员会执行秘书斯科特•佩斯称，五角大楼已将航天视为“作战领域”，“与美国核战略一样，航天的核心目标就是打击任何形式的战争威胁”。
US Space Policy: The United States Space Force
by Staff Writers
Washington DC (VOA) Dec 16, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump displays the “Space Policy Directive 4” after signing the directive to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the Armed Forces in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 19, 2019. File Photo Reuters/Pool
The Trump Administration and United States Congress are currently in discussions regarding a proposal to create and fund a service branch within the U.S. Air Force that would assist in deterring conflict in space.
The Trump Administration and United States Congress are currently in discussions regarding a proposal to create and fund a service branch within the U.S. Air Force that would assist in deterring conflict in space. Called the United States Space Force, the branch would be part of the U.S. Air Force much the way the Marine Corps are part of the U.S. Navy.
Over time, the Space Force would evolve to become a stand-alone branch of the armed services. Scott Pace is Executive Secretary of the National Space Council. He explained why space is now considered what the Pentagon calls a “war-fighting domain”:
“Some people say: are we going to militarize space? And the answer is space has really been a military domain since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. They used, actually, a converted ICBM to do it. So space has been a realm of military activity really since the very beginning. It’s been used for reconnaissance.
It’s been used for communications. It’s used for navigation. … What space has not been, has been a war-fighting domain. And, what’s become different in the last few years, ever since the 2007 anti-satellite test that China conducted, where they destroyed one of their own weather satellites, we’ve seen a rapid and steady growth in anti-satellite weapons by Russia and China.
Most of them ground based. … China and Russia have, of course, observed how dependent we are on space for our military activities, and therefore, they’ve been building weapons systems to place those capabilities at risk.”
Executive Secretary Pace explained that similar to U.S. nuclear strategy, deterrence of any kind of battle is the key goal in space. The Space Force, which would be responsible for organizing, training and equipping military and civilian personnel, would be vital to that deterrence.
“The Space Force,” said Vice President Mike Pence, “Will be a vanguard to defending our nation, defending our freedom, and defending the rights of all freedom-loving nations in the vast expanses of space.”