Trump wants to send the military into space — here's how a fight in space would go down

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• President Donald Trump is looking at sending the US military into space with a newly invented service, the Space Force.
• Combat in space is not only likely in a war scenario, but could prove highly devastating for those on earth.
• Most of the fighting would likely involve missiles taking out satellites, and possibly killer satellites and lasers shooting each other down.
• But a lot of the fighting would be things the US military already does, so many think it's a dumb idea. 

President Donald Trump is ordering the Pentagon to create the first new US military service branch in seven decades to establish "American dominance in space," and while experts quickly knocked the idea as premature — there's no doubt that space is a warfighting domain. 

As it stands, the Russia and China both have tested missiles that could bring the US to its knees by crippling its satellites. 

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