It was an incredible amount of money spent to stroke a megalomaniac’s ego. There was no need for it and, of course, no need for the inevitable expansion of the attendant bureaucracy.
Most of the money the Space Force is spending is money USAF was already spending. Yes, there are a few more military bureaucrats and they spent a few bucks on fancy new badges, logos, and a silly song.
But any thought that the Space Force budget is all incremental new spending is nuts.
At some point in the future, a military force for space would become a practical organizational necessity. IMO Trump’s decision, like all of them, was impulsive and designed mostly to stroke his ego. But assuming the current trend of tech, politics, and military / foreign affairs continues much as the last 10-30 years indicates, we’d have had a separate Space Force by some name some time in the reasonable future. Certainly by 2100 and more likely by 2050. This was not Trump’s idea; the plans had been rattling around inside DoD since before the Gulf War. They just weren’t important enough to be implemented with all the other distractors going on.
Arguably, doing it now while the incremental overhead is small and lots of operational doctrine is still soft was the right time to do it. The aerial portion of the Army Signal Corps suffered a bunch at the hands of the traditional US Army on the way to becoming the Army Air Corps, the Army Air Force, and finally in 1947 the USAF. Had it been more fully separated earlier, a lot of stifling would never have happened.
You need to add more “words that almost sound correct” type mistakes. Like, “It’s a double stand art!”
Stand art; it’s a perfectly cromulent word.