President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday announced a plan to create a Space Force as a sixth branch of the U.S. military by 2020.The plan, unveiled by Vice President Mike Pence, is intended to strengthen American power in space against the growing capabilities of adversaries such as Russia and China."Today, other nations are seeking to disrupt our space-based systems and challenge American supremacy in space as never before," Pence said in an address at the Pentagon. "Our adversaries have transformed space into a warfighting domain already."Pence said that while other countries i…READ FULL ARTICLE
