{"id":165408,"date":"2023-04-29T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=165408"},"modified":"2023-04-29T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T15:23:50","slug":"the-decisive-space-war-finally-breaks-out-in-the-open-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=165408","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b>The Decisive Space War Finally Breaks Out In The Open&#8212;BIG TIME!!!<\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Space Force, Assemble!<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>General Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/2171\/armed-forces-of-the-united-states\/\">U.S. Space Force<\/a>, warned last week that the U.S. is facing a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/10756\/space-startups\/\">new era of space activity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;The threats that we face to our on-orbit capabilities from our strategic competitors [have] grown substantially&#8221;,\u00a0<\/strong>he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/manifestspace\">told CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Manifest Space&#8221; podcast.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-04-28_14-22-47.jpg?itok=gkMX9jSo\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-04-28_14-22-47.jpg?itok=gkMX9jSo\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2023-04-28_14-22-47.jpg?itok=gkMX9jSo\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c7f9da98-0cd6-4ab9-99c6-d23a19abec2d\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Space Force has\u00a0<strong>grown substantially\u00a0<\/strong>since its 2019 inception:\u00a0<strong>Both in terms of personnel and budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Infographic: Space Force, Assemble! | Statista\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/29811\/space-force-personnel-and-budget\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/29811.jpeg\" alt=\"Infographic: Space Force, Assemble! | Statista\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/29811\/space-force-personnel-and-budget\/\">As Statista&#8217;s Martin Armstrong shows in the infographic above<\/a>, end-strength personnel in 2021 was almost 10 thousand, while the budget was $15.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023. the<strong>\u00a0personnel level had to over 13,500<\/strong>. Representing an even larger jump, Space Force&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>budget leapt up to nearly $25 billion in 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/space-force-assemble\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/space-force-assemble<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Force, Assemble!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}