"We are not comfortable discussing the question of offensive cyberoperations, but we consider cyberspace a war-fighting domain," said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman.
"Our adversaries have transformed space into a war-fighting domain already".
The Chinese government has set up a separate division within its own military to address space as a war-fighting domain, Pence said.
Emphasizing the need to both further militarize and privatize space as a new war-fighting domain, Pence stressed that the new branch of the military is targeted for a 2020 implementation date.
In his speech, Pence noted that "our adversaries [like Russia and China] have transformed space into a war-fighting domain already, and the United States will not shrink from this challenge".
There's a lovely scene in "The Castle," the Australian movie about a family fighting eminent-domain eviction, where its hapless lawyer, asked in court to point to the specific part of the Australian constitution that the eviction violates, says desperately, "It's... just the vibe of the thing".
As part of the space plan, the Department of Defense will also create a new space operations force that will be "an elite group of joint war fighters specializing in the war-fighting domains of space," according to Pence.
While the museum association revealed its plans, Foe Hammerone, who belongs to a citizens' group fighting the taking of land by eminent domain, stood outside in protest.
"Ultimate fighting was once the sole domain of burly men who beat each other bloody in anything-goes brawls on pay-per-view TV," the Associated Press reported this week.
The corporates avoid fighting with good arguments in the public domain, instead preferring litigation.
It was also born on the desktop, and has been fighting to make the mobile phone its domain – something it has largely succeeded with through its Android software, which now runs about half of the smartphones sold worldwide.
