Paul Castleman Fellow Sam Hickey spoke with The Telegraph about the Iranian missile strikes on Israel. Israel and its US, UK and European allies were given sufficient time to ready themselves to deploy fighter jets and warships to help take down the Iranian barrage of drones and missiles. “This one was in relative terms more surprising,” […]
Comparative Summary: Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act
Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY24 Request FY25 requested levels come from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Fiscal Year 2025 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book Numbers may not add due to rounding Total National Defense Discretionary Spending Request (050) DOD Nuclear Weapons Funding Request for Select Programs National […]
Trump has long promised a ‘beautiful’ wall. Now he’s pledging ‘the greatest dome ever.’
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with NBC News about missile defense and the feasibility of an “Iron Dome” defense system in the United States. “We’re seeing a lot of positive news on missile defense. It’s doing really good work on protecting civilians in Ukraine and Israel now,” said John Erath, a former National Security Council official who […]
The Right and Wrong Lessons to Learn from Missile Defense in Ukraine
By Shawn Rostker The war in Ukraine has been marked by a Russian reliance on air strikes in the face of its failure to capture decisive victory on the ground. The use of drones and missiles against military and civilian targets has been one of the main pillars of a Russian strategy to drain Ukraine’s […]
Why Israel’s Iron Dome couldn’t stop every rocket strike from Hamas
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Business Insider about Israel’s Iron Dome defense system. Still, like any anti-missile defense system, it has its limitations, John Erath, Senior Policy Director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told Insider Wednesday. “Iron dome has been very effective against small-scale attacks, which are the norm,” Erath said. […]
