Bangladesh, Sept. 21 -- The Arabian Peninsula is the vast new frontier where newly-formed US Space Force is being deployed.

Space Force now has a squadron of 20 airmen stationed at Qatar's Al-Udeid Air Base in its first foreign deployment.

The force, pushed by President Donald Trump, represents the sixth branch of the US military and the first new military service since the creation of the Air Force in 1947, reports AP.

It has provoked skepticism in Congress, satire on Netflix, and, with its uncannily similar logo, "Star Trek" jokes about intergalactic battles.

Future wars may be waged in outer space, but the Arabian Desert already saw what military experts dub the world's first "space war" - the 1991 Desert Storm operation to drive I...