https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-space-force-is-moving-forward-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ > Right now it's largely rhetorical, a call to arms for a new way of dealing with military matters in Earth's orbit. But the Trump administration hopes to have a United States Space Force up and running by as soon as 2020. > In other words, in just a few years, military recruiters could be looking to sign up America's best and brightest for a brand-new branch of the military that no one was talking about just eight months ago.