https://www.wired.co.uk/article/space-fo...ump-sci-fi
EXCERPT: Donald Trump’s Space Force, whatever it ends up becoming, brushes right up against the limits of science fiction, where images of interplanetary fleets are common. With a proposed budget of $8 billion over five years – relatively paltry, given the costs involved with space exploration, especially at military scale – it's more likely that whatever materialises in the real world will be more of a domestic defence shield than a star convoy.
Still, pop culture provides endless examples of how such an organisation might work. So if Trump were to take his policy cues from sci-fi, what might Space Force end up looking like?
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Across a large swathe of science fiction, the recurring theme of any space force is that they only tend to exist when the cultures of Earth – and sometimes those further afield – come together. There's almost a shared recognition that there's no real point for single nations to have space navies, for the simple reason that there's no one to fight. Even where individual countries do form one, the tendency is to have them braced against alien threats, rather than ones from Earth.
MORE: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/space-fo...ump-sci-fi
EXCERPT: Donald Trump’s Space Force, whatever it ends up becoming, brushes right up against the limits of science fiction, where images of interplanetary fleets are common. With a proposed budget of $8 billion over five years – relatively paltry, given the costs involved with space exploration, especially at military scale – it's more likely that whatever materialises in the real world will be more of a domestic defence shield than a star convoy.
Still, pop culture provides endless examples of how such an organisation might work. So if Trump were to take his policy cues from sci-fi, what might Space Force end up looking like?
[...]
Across a large swathe of science fiction, the recurring theme of any space force is that they only tend to exist when the cultures of Earth – and sometimes those further afield – come together. There's almost a shared recognition that there's no real point for single nations to have space navies, for the simple reason that there's no one to fight. Even where individual countries do form one, the tendency is to have them braced against alien threats, rather than ones from Earth.
MORE: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/space-fo...ump-sci-fi