By Matthew Fargo Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner’s op-ed in the Washington Times on April 23 muddled the history of ballistic missile defense when he blamed President Barack Obama for the inability of the United States to field anything more than a nascent missile defense system. The United States has been developing missile defense systems […]
Quote of the Day: East Coast Missile Defense Site Not Needed Edition
SEN. LEVIN: And there have been suggestions by some in Congress that we should deploy a ground based interceptor or interceptors on the East Coast of the United States, to defend the homeland against a possible future long range Iranian missile threat….
The Real Problem with the Czechoslovakia Gaffe
So I’m a little late to the game on this, but last week Mitt Romney foreign policy adviser Ambassador Pierre Prosper dug up a familiar GOP attack on President Obama’s missile defense policy: You know Russia is another example where we give and Russia g…
Quote of the Day: Concurrency Edition
MDA undertook a highly concurrent acquisition strategy to meet the President’s 2002 directive to deploy an initial set of missile defense capabilities by 2004. To do so, the GMD element concurrently matured technology, designed the system, tested the design, and produced and fielded a system.
Because I couldn’t resist
Two fair questions prompted by the cartoon: (1) How far has North Korea’s missile program advanced since 2006 and (2) how far has the US Ground Based Midcourse Defense System (GMD) advanced since 2006?
