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You know, it's not Marines in space, it's not guys with laser guns. This is actually really boring, which is why a lot of the reporting has to sort of tap

into one of these more fanciful ideas. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts. Matthew Galt'm Jason Field.

Here's Space Force, you're probably thinking. Hello and welcome to War College.

I'm Matthew Galt.

And I'm Jason Field.

If you're Space Force, you're probably thinking Star Wars, Batov Star Galactica, or even the expanse.

But put that out of your mind, instead of X-wings, many critics envision added bureaucracy and costs,

which is not really exciting. But that doesn't mean the US isn't facing real threats in space.

So what would a space force be? Do we need one? And how does the rest of the military feel about this?

To help us figure that out, we're going to sit down with the war zones, Joseph Trevithic, to get some answers.

Joe, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me.

Let's get some basics out of the way first. What are the dangers that the U.S. is facing

in space? Why do we need a space force? Or do? Well the danger is losing your satellites

at the that's the danger at the moment is that the US military relies heavily on

its satellites for increasingly diverse roles, so you have communications and then you have

navigation, GPS, but then that GPS also guides weapons and can help in positioning, you know, determining the position of other people.

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