Hi, Shrewd!        Login  
Shrewd'm.com 
A merry & shrewd investing community
Best Of Politics | Best Of | Favourites & Replies | All Boards | Post of the Week!
Search Politics
Shrewd'm.com Merry shrewd investors
Best Of Politics | Best Of | Favourites & Replies | All Boards | Post of the Week!
Search Politics


Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (5) |
Post New
Author: PucksFool   😊 😞
Number: of 55811 
Subject: It is as if his goal is to make the US vulner
Date: 09/04/2025 4:05 AM
Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 19
Trump's decision to move the Space Command to Alabama from Colorado may be political theater that will cost millions of dollars. It will leave us less prepared for an attack for years.

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/you-dont-ge...

U.S. Space Command is the central nervous system of our government's nuclear infrastructure.

This is why President Biden chose to headquarter U.S. Space Command in Colorado in 2023. Because all the pertinent Space Force facilities were already there: Peterson, Schriever, Cheyenne Mountain, and Buckley military bases, the whole of U.S. Space Command.

It wasn't about politics. It was about military readiness. It didn't make sense to put Space Force headquarters in any state other than Colorado when the only priority should be quick and effective communication in a nuclear crisis and there was already an infrastructure.

Now, U.S. Space Command will not be fully operational for years because the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama lacks the existing infrastructure already available in Colorado.

But Alabama is a GOP-dominant state and there are massive contracts involved.

So, Trump is catering to his base over national security. Yet again.

To put it more bluntly: Trump is dangerously gambling our nuclear readiness in service to his greed and political pettiness.


Print the post


Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 55811 
Subject: Re: It is as if his goal is to make the US vulner
Date: 09/04/2025 10:23 AM
Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 2
Because all the pertinent Space Force facilities were already there: Peterson, Schriever, Cheyenne Mountain, and Buckley military bases, the whole of U.S. Space Command.

Anyone else look up what goes on at those bases? I did. They are early warning system bases, which have been there for years. Most "cold war kids" have heard of Cheyenne Mountain. A couple of them are also bases for "Space Force wings", but the wings are inactive, because nothing has been developed for them to use.

The development thing happens at places like Huntsville.

Steve
Print the post


Author: onepoorguy   😊 😞
Number: of 55811 
Subject: Re: It is as if his goal is to make the US vulner
Date: 09/04/2025 12:48 PM
Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 8
I always thought "Space Force" was a stupid idea (and, tangentially, unconstitutional...but that didn't stop us with the Air Force, either).

NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain are working fine. Don't start moving stuff around. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Cheyenne Mountain is under a mountain. Can't get much more secure than that.
Print the post


Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 55811 
Subject: Re: It is as if his goal is to make the US vulner
Date: 09/04/2025 1:05 PM
Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 2
NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain are working fine. Don't start moving stuff around. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Cheyenne Mountain is under a mountain. Can't get much more secure than that.

I don't think anyone is talking about moving any of the early warning hardware. The farther north they are, and, increasingly, the farther west, the more effective they are.

Trump cited some 1600 people. That is nothing but administrative overhead. As posted before, they would hardly be noticed, among the 30-40,000 people who work at Redstone.

This is what the Marshall does at Redstone:

Marshall Space Flight Center (officially the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center; MSFC), located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (Huntsville postal address),[3] is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center.[2] As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo program. Marshall has been the lead center for the Space Shuttle main propulsion and external tank; payloads and related crew training; International Space Station (ISS) design and assembly; computers, networks, and information management; and the Space Launch System. Located on the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, MSFC is named in honor of General of the Army George C. Marshall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Space_Fligh...

That is the skill set needed for "Space Force".

Steve
Print the post


Author: Goofyhoofy 🐝🐝 HONORARY
SHREWD
  😊 😞

Number: of 55811 
Subject: Re: It is as if his goal is to make the US vulner
Date: 09/04/2025 6:32 PM
Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 6
Cheyenne Mountain is under a mountain. Can't get much more secure than that.

But they want to move it to Alabama, which is under 100 miles of bullshit. So, pretty safe there too.
Print the post


Post New
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (5) |


Announcements
US Policy FAQ
Contact Shrewd'm
Contact the developer of these message boards.

Best Of Politics | Best Of | Favourites & Replies | All Boards | Followed Shrewds