THE “SPACE FORCE” TO GET A NEW NAME?

[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 24, 2025 / Joseph P. Farrell

Amid the sad murders of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk that have so rightly and justifiably preoccupied attention in the past few days, some stories managed to slip "under the radar", and I'm far from thinking that this fact was entirely coincidental or accidental. In the case of the murder of Mr. Kirk, there are growing indications that there was foreknowledge, and where there is foreknowledge, there is conspiracy, and where there is conspiracy, there is also usually someone willing to take advantage of the distracted attention of people to accomplish other objectives far removed from the purpose of the conspiracy itself.

In this case, the story is that of the Space Force Command seeking a legal name change from Congress, a name change that will explicitly feature the word "combat" in its name (story shared by E.E. with our gratitude):

Space Force considers adding ‘combat’ to command’s name

There is an amazing statement in this article, which I'm sure you have already spotted, and which I am certain is provoking the same questions in you as it did me. But before we get to that, it would be useful to rehearse a few of the salient moments in the establishment of this space force command. I am thinking of two events, in particular.

The first event was the speech given to the US Air Force Academy's graduating class in 2016, where general Mark "Thoroughly Modern" Milley gave his speech warning that the soldiers of the future would have to be able to fight "little green men." I blogged about that story, because the explanation we were given of the general's remarks was that "little green men" was simply military slang for the green camouflage uniforms worn by Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, as the countdown to that war was already well underway. I wasn't buying that explanation then, and am not buying it now. Milley - for whatever his faults as a policy-maker or military leader may or may not have been - was hardly so stupid as not to understand the ufological connotations of the phrase "little green men," and for that matter, nor were his Pentagon "handlers".  See my blog about that story here:

REMEMBER THAT GENERAL’S “LITTLE GREEN MEN” ...

Do you remember that US Army General who gave that funny little speech to military graduates to be prepared to “fight little green men”?

On this view, Milley was clearly preparing the narrative for the militarization of space by alluding to an extraterrestrial threat.

The second event was another statement, this time made by Mr. Trump during his first administration. You may or may not recall his appearance in California where he stated that America needed "another space force." Not a new service branch. Not a new space force (which we hadn't had until then), but another one. Again, most people ignored the remark, understanding it to be the typical slip of the tongue or misspeaking that one can do when one is extemporizing under pressure. That's certainly a possible explanation. But there is in law a doctrine that such statements, uttered under the pressure of the moment, and without "reflection", are the best indicators of the real truth, since they are made without the confabulation that often follows in the attempts to explain such remarks away (as with the case of General "Thoroughly Modern" Milley's remarks).

From that perspective, what Mr. Trump had let slip was the idea that the USA already had a space force, and now it needed "another" one, to fill a different mission set. By way of analogy, it would be akin to the difference in the two military service branches of the Coast Guard, and the Navy. The two have very different operational areas, and very different missions.  The military discipline and rank structure is more or less the same, but the missions and theaters of operation are completely different. So perhaps what Mr. Trump was proposing was that we already have the "coastal defense" version of the space force, now we need a deep water version, a "deep space" version; a navy.

This brings me to the remarks that caught my attention, and we begin with the headline itself: The Space Force Command is seeking, [i]through an act of Congress, to get the word "combat" added to its name: Space Force Combat Command. And the implications are immediately obvious: just who, exactly, is the potential enemy needing to be combatted. There are the usual suspects, of course, Russia, and China, and any other terrestrial power of group having a space-launch capability: Europe, Japan, India... again, the usual suspects. A glance at the article does indeed confirm that these are the "groups of concern".[/i]

Lest there be any doubt as to the intentions of the name change, it is to acknowledge that space, like it or not, is already weaponized and that further space militarization is all but an accomplished fact:

The service is considering changing Space Operations Command’s name to Combat Forces Command, pending Senate confirmation of its new commander, Space Force spokesperson Lt. Col. Victoria Porto said on Wednesday.

“The name change better reflects the field command’s critical responsibility as the Space Force’s proponent for combat space power, including generating and improving combat-ready forces to execute service and combatant command assigned missions,” Porto told Task & Purpose.

The command is tasked with generating and sustaining combat-ready intelligence, cyber and space forces and working with the rest of the U.S. government, allies, and commercial agencies to “project combat power in, from, and to space,” Porto said. (Emphasis added)

The projection of "combat power in, from, and to space" pretty well summarizes the fact that, insofar as Mr. Trump's remarks are concerned, we're dealing with that "Coast Guard" analogy, or in this case, "planetary" or "close defense" component.

Which leaves General Milley's remarks about "little green men" still hovering uncomfortably over the whole situation. And the bottom line there is that if, indeed, Mr. Musk or anyone else is ever seriously successful in getting humans to, and from, Mars, i.e., into "deep space", a "Navy" for protection will be needed. It's that possibility, in my opinion, that is the ultimate goal and objective behind all the shuffling of personnel and name changes... they're preparing for something, and its not just ground-based Chinese anti-satellite lasers.

See you on the flip side...

THE “SPACE FORCE” TO GET A NEW NAME?

[gortex]

Given how noisy we've been over the last 100 years I think it makes sense to prepare for someone to pop round and tell us to keep it down although if they come with bad intention all we will will do is throw sticks and rocks at them.

Space Force for terrestrial threats does make sense as everybody wants to dominate the high ground but I think a name change would be both costly and pointless  , Space Force is fine.

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

I'm tired of the threat of extra-terrestrials abducting people and probing their privates. We need to present a similar defensive capability, let's call it MAP (mutually assured probing). Our MAP weapons have to be rougher than the alien ones, "no cosmic creams, just probes and screams" should be our motto.

The only problem I can see is if they don't have an orifice worthy of probing. If that is the case, it may explain their intense interest in probing ours. They must have something we can probe to violate their private areas. The government already knows alien anatomy and what will work, I'm sure of that.

[Bally002]

New name?....."Space Balls"  perhaps.

Exit stage left,

Bally)