THE DEBATE GETS REAL: President Trump upped the ante in his bid to convince Congress to sign off on a separate U.S. Space Force yesterday by dispatching his vice president to the Pentagon extol the idea with lofty language and dire warnings of inaction.

“While too often previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threats emerging in space, President Trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is, in his words, a warfighting domain just like land and air and sea,” Vice President Mike Pence said in a speech in a Pentagon auditorium packed with uniformed military personnel.