August 10, 2018

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The Pentagon's top engineer criticized Russia and China this week for militarizing space, a move the Trump administration wants to address with the formation of a sixth service branch dubbed Space Force.

His remarks came a day before Vice President Mike Pence laid out President Donald Trump's vision for creating the Space Force by 2020.

"We are not the people who choose to weaponize space, but if we are challenged we will respond," Michael Griffin said Wednesday at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama. "The Defense Department is today working on a means to defend our existing capabilities and we will be working on methods to project our national power onto our adversaries."

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