Trump is Right to Prioritize Homeland Missile Defense
President Trump issued an executive order, “The Iron Dome for America,” on January 27, jumpstarting a major effort to deploy and maintain a “next generation” missile shield to better...
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Bolster U.S. Military
As a new administration is poised to take charge in January 2025, it will face a markedly different threat landscape than its predecessor. The United States and its allies now confront an axis of authoritarians...
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Getting to know the defense systems that keep Israel safe from Iranian threats
The Iranian threat met the aerial and technological superiority of the IDF, along with a strong fighting coalition - which together intercepted the overwhelming majority of the threats.
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In first, Israel’s Arrow air defense system intercepts ballistic missile near Red Sea: IDF
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Arrow air defense system for the first time intercepted a ballistic missile today, in an attempted strike believed to have been launched from Yemen. The Israeli Defense Forces...
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Guam Needs Better Missile Defenses—Urgently
Here's a two-stage plan to harden this crucial island base against China's burgeoning missile arsenal.
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Successful SM-3 weapons test offers missile defense opportunity
[This article was published in Defense News on November 21, 2020. The version below contains the complete set of hyperlinks to sources referenced in the piece.] The United States this week successfully...
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Iran military satellite launch requires US action
The Islamic Republic of Iran is at it again. In addition to resuming its longstanding maritime belligerence that instigated the latest war of words with President Trump, Tehran recently launched its...
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Insufficient missile defense funding would leave Americans vulnerable
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency submitted its report on unfunded priorities to Congress last week, which includes a number of priorities worth more than $1.1 billion. The list demonstrates the tangible...
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Expelling Digital Demons from U.S. Sensitive Supply Chains
Co-authored by Michael Hsieh. If the U.S. Department of Defense were an economy unto itself, it would be the 20th largest in the world. Like any other advanced modern econo...
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In Defense of U.S. Missile Defense
Co-authored by Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III Regarding “The delusion of missile defense” (Views, Sept. 21), Yousaf Butt claims, erroneously, that the U.S. Ballistic...
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MAD in the 21st Century
Mutually Assured Destruction may have been a sensible policy during the Cold War. It isn’t now.
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Countering the Growing Airborne Threat
Co-Authored with Henry A. Obering III President Obama has made it clear that “resetting” relations with Russia and eliminating the planet’s nuclear weapons are...
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Why Is Missile Defense Controversial?
Missile defense - as the term might suggest - is defensive, not offensive. Brilliant American scientists have developed sophisticated technologies to prevent missiles - including those armed with...