{"id":91816,"date":"2019-06-09T14:43:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T21:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/atomic-rockets"},"modified":"2019-06-09T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T21:43:22","slug":"atomic-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/atomic-rockets","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-rockets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrho.com\/public_html\/rocket\/astromilitary.php#intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-rockets.png\" title=\"link for sharing\" \/><\/a> Among science fiction stories with space flight, the overwhelming majority are about combat, both between spacecraft and between futuristic ground troops. Not to mention the occasional starship marine assault trying to board a hostile ship while in flight. Yes, there are a few non-combat stories, mostly about exploration, but space combat is here to stay.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the natural continuation of the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Militarisation_of_space\">militarisation of space<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which naturally leads to questions about the space branch of the military of various nations. The \u201castro-military\u201d in other words. Some may start out as a subdivision of an existing branch and eventually grow large enough to split off (such as how the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Air_Corps\">US Army Air Corps<\/a> spit off to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Air_Force\">US Air Force<\/a> in 1947). Some may grow large enough to absorb other branches of the military, others may be reabsorbed into other branches. In William Keith\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrho.com\/public_html\/rocket\/sealofapproval.php#id\u2014Science_Fiction_Novels\u2014Galactic_Marines_Series\">Galactic Marines series<\/a> one of the themes of the early novels is how the US Marines fight being absorbed or eliminated. Their solution is diversifying their mission to include performing assaults on Luna and Mars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrho.com\/public_html\/rocket\/astromilitary.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among science fiction stories with space flight, the overwhelming majority are about combat, both between spacecraft and between futuristic ground troops. Not to mention the occasional starship marine assault trying to board a hostile ship while in flight. Yes, there are a few non-combat stories, mostly about exploration, but space combat is here to stay. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}