{"id":11294,"date":"2018-08-12T22:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T22:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11294"},"modified":"2018-08-12T22:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T22:31:53","slug":"is-the-us-looking-for-war-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11294","title":{"rendered":"Is the US looking for war in space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"76\">\n<p>US Vice President Mike Pence says the time has come to prepare for the next battlefield &#8211; and that battlefield is space.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans want to create a space force within two years to defend US satellites and spacecraft from attack.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be the first new branch of the military since 1947.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump wants Congress to approve the plan and agree to additional funding of $8bn.<\/p>\n<p>But who will the US be competing against? And is it the start of a new space race?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Hoda Abdel-Hamid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Oliver McGee &#8211; former adviser to Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p>Einar Tangen &#8211; China political analyst<\/p>\n<p>Morris Jones &#8211; space analyst and author of When Men Walked on the Moon<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice President Mike Pence says the time has come to prepare for the next battlefield &#8211; and that battlefield is space. The Americans want to create a space force within two years to defend US satellites and spacecraft from attack. It&#8217;ll be the first new branch of the military since 1947. US President Donald&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}