Kongres Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki wobec utworzenia Sił Kosmicznych jako odrębnego rodzaju wojsk

Abstract

The United States Congress, as one of the most important institutions of the country’s political system, has broad powers to legislate, shape policy and influence the executive branch. One of its primary prerogatives is to approve the budget of the United States Department of Defense. The purpose of this study is to analyse the actions of Congress in relation to the presidential proposal to create the United States Space Force as a separate type of military, which was designed as a response of the administration’s reply to the growing importance of outer space as a domain of military action. The author adopted network institutionalism as a theoretical basis and applied methods of institutional examination and content analysis. He used these to positively verify the following hypothesis: the presidential project for the creation of the Space Force was subject to substantive debate in Congress, while serving as a bargaining chip in the process of implementing part demands through the shape and distribution of expenditure in the defense budget.