In his speech to the US military at the Miramar Marine Corps Base on Tuesday, March 13, US President Donald Trump said that his new national security strategy sees outer space as a theater of war, on the basis of which he proposed the idea of creating the US Space Corps. - branches of the US military, which will operate outside the earth's atmosphere.
“Space is an area of war, just like land, air and sea. Therefore, we must have a Space Force. Since the early days of space, many of our astronauts have been military - Coast Guard soldiers and Marines. Therefore, the Space Force will be vital to ensure that America continues to march towards the stars.”
At first glance, the idea of creating a Space Corps by the Pentagon seems to be a natural separation from the Air Force of the units involved in the orbital satellite constellation and wars in orbit. But why the case?
Usually this word refers to units where the military is fighting directly with the enemy, such as people from the United States Marine Corps. But no one calls "corps" a unit of hackers or military propagandists.
From here, the American blodrome had a vague suspicion that we are not talking about an analogue, for example, of the Russian Aerospace Forces, but about units for something else. And everyone immediately recalled the funny story of 2016 that seemed to many then.
In 2016, the United States celebrated the centenary of the ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) training program. In honor of the event, General Mark Miley, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, visited the University of Norwich where he spoke to uniformed cadets.
The general's speech was full of standard cliches and excellent examples of staff military thought, however, it also contained a lot of new things. In particular:
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“If the world in 1916 was difficult, and the world in 1945 was very difficult, then the world in 2016 is extremely complex, I can tell you from personal experience. You will be dealing with terrorists, you will be dealing with hybrid armies, you will be dealing with little green men, you will be dealing with tribes, you will be dealing with all of this, dealing with all at once."
After these words of the general, which became the property of the general American public, millions of Americans were at a loss - who did Mark Miley mean by "little green men"?
If he meant Russians, then Russians are representatives of the Indo-European ethnos, that is, they are white, not green, and not small. If the general meant Muslims, then they are also not green and are quite large, wider in the shoulders of any American general. And not everyone is under the green flag. Some have a black flag. Hence, many had the assumption that the general was preparing cadets for a war against aliens, which in 2016 everyone took as a joke.
However, in the light of the new military initiative of Donald Trump, in the light of the increasingly frequent sightings of entire squadrons of UFOs that hover over cities, Mark Miley's words are already perceived somewhat differently. Are NASA, the Pentagon and the military from Area 51 going to play an “alien invasion” in front of the world, which the US “space marines” will fight?