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Well, that, that's kinda like really important when we look at the, uh, way in which you start to integrate these s- secret space programs into this architecture that's being created, like the Artemis Accords, Olympic Defender, because, I mean, uh, the Solar Warden program and what the Air Force secret space program was doing out there for decades before Space Force was created, you know, all of that is operating with, you know, they've got fleets of anti-gravity craft out there doing their, their own thing, some working with the dark fleet and, um, but the Navy Solar Warden is, is the kinda like the big, big one and, and it's like, well, how do you integrate that into the present kinda like infrastructure that exists? At the moment, it's, the, it's not ready 'cause, uh, Space Force is, is not a Navy operation.

It's a, it's an, it's an in the Department of the Air Force.

So Space Force, um, doesn't incorporate, uh, the Navy Solar Warden program.

Space Command is an integrated command structure, so it integrates different military services to f- to kinda like unify, uh, combat operations in space.

It's, you know, u- under the way in which the US, um, has set up its, uh, uh, combatant commands, Space Command can do that.

Now, in the future, when the truth is revealed about the secret space programs, uh, that's when the Navy Solar Warden program will probably need to, uh, be incorporated into something like a, a department of the Space Force ra- rather than...

Currently, Space Force is part of the Department of the Air Force.

Space Force will have to become its own separate department and, and then Solar Warden w- will be part of that.

And I'm Colonel Cory Hallen, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, also at SAASS.

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