Mattis: 'I Was Not Against Setting up a Space Force'

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said he was not against establishing a sixth branch of the military for space when he wrote Congress about it last year. "I was not against setting up a Space Force. What I was against is rushing to do that before we define those problems," Mattis told reporters while en route to Brazil Sunday. In a letter to members of Congress last October, Mattis wrote that he "oppose(d) the creation of a new military service and additional...

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