WE HAVE LIFT-OFF! WAIT, NOT QUITE: President Trump took one small step toward his lofty goal of launching a Space Force yesterday, signing a policy directive instructing the Air Force to come up with a proposal to send to Congress to create a new branch of the armed services for the first time since 1947.

“With today’s actions, we will ensure that our people are secure, our interests are protected, and our power continues to be unmatched. There will be nobody that can come close to matching us. It won’t be close,” Trump said in the Oval Office flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Pentagon officials including Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Air Force Gen. Paul Selva.