Letter: Trump’s Space Force is convoluted folly

The Strategic Defense Initiative (a plan for the militarization of outer space that surfaced during the Ronald Reagan administration) is back in the form of President Donald Trump’s Space Force.According to a Wikipedia article on the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO):“It was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee development. A wide array of advanced weapon concepts, including lasers, particle beam weapons and ground- and space-based m