If you shouldn’t fix what isn’t broken, you certainly shouldn’t fix what’s working very well. This is especially true when the imprudent change would risk the U.S. military’s prospects of victory in a future war.

President Donald Trump appears poised to make such a mistake by announcing the relocation of the military’s Space Command from Colorado‘s Peterson Space Force Base to Alabama‘s Redstone Arsenal. Pushing ahead with this would be a serious error of judgment that would bring immediate costs to Space Command’s operating efficiency as the centerpiece of the military’s space operations.