We have an op-ed in the Wall St Journal pushing for one. Me, an old USAF veteran, I'd think my old service would be over joyed, highly motivated, and more than capable to take on any space defense or offense programs. I doubt that we need a another government organization to preform the mission, whatever that mission might turn out to be.
Right now we have a flock of recon satellites, the GPS nav satellites, weather satellites, and a bunch of comm satellites up there. If an enemy shot them down we would miss them, a lot. And shooting down a satellite than travels in a highly predictable orbit, in plain sight of ground radar, is fairly easy, compared to shooting down an ICBM, which we claim we can do now.
Trouble is, there isn't much a satellite can do to defend itself. And there isn't much that a "anti-anti-satellite" weapon could do either. Best I can think of is to use ICBM's to vaporize the launching sites of enemy anti-satellite missiles, which is really really an act of war. Some kind of hi tech shoot out above the atmosphere might get passed off as a trivial border incident, but nuclear weapons detonating on your soil cannot be.
So despite the need for defending our satellite fleet, I don't see what anyone, a hypothetical Space Corps, or the good old USAF can do about it, given today's, or even tomorrow's, technology.
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