Good evening. Hidden behind the Department of Defense → Department of War fanfare on Friday was another proposed change by the Pentagon: renaming an existing Space Force command to "Combat Forces Command," in order to better reflect its directive as military efforts in space continue to ramp up.

• The focus of US military space operations has been shifting from controlling satellites and tracking other objects in space toward a more adversarial posture, Ars Technica reports.
• Space Force officials are now talking more openly about developing offensive capabilities to disable or destroy enemy spacecraft—like the proposed Golden Dome missile defense shield, which includes space-based interceptors.

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Each of the following events happened on September 9. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) The NFL catches the New England Patriots illegally videotaping coaching signals of the New York Jets from an unauthorized location in a Week 1 game in East Rutherford, NJ—a scandal the media soon dubs "Spygate." The Pats admit wrongdoing a few days later.
• B) Mao Zedong, who led the Chinese people through a long revolution and then ruled the nation’s communist government from its establishment, dies. “Chairman Mao” remains a highly revered figure in the country, particularly by the Communist Party of China (CCP), who credits him with uniting the country and establishing the People's Republic of China.
• C) Congress formally declares the name of our country to be the “United States” of America—replacing the term “United Colonies,” which had been in general use.
• D) A Japanese seaplane drops incendiary bombs near Brookings, Oregon, the first-ever aerial bombing on the US mainland. However, the bombs, which were intended to start a forest fire, do little damage.

Hint: Bombs = WWII era

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C, D, B, A

• C) 1776: Congress formally declares the name of our country to be the “United States” of America—replacing the term “United Colonies,” which had been in general use.
• D) 1942: A Japanese seaplane drops incendiary bombs near Brookings, Oregon, the first-ever aerial bombing on the US mainland. The bombs, which were intended to start a forest fire, do little damage.
• B) 1976: Mao Zedong, who led the Chinese people through a long revolution and then ruled the nation’s communist government from its establishment, dies. “Chairman Mao” remains a highly revered figure in the country, particularly by the Communist Party of China (CCP), who credits him with uniting the country and establishing the People's Republic of China.
• A) 2007: The NFL catches the New England Patriots illegally videotaping coaching signals of the New York Jets from an unauthorized location in a Week 1 game in East Rutherford, NJ—a scandal the media soon dubs "Spygate." The Pats admit wrongdoing later in the week.