A Vision to March Towards: The Missile Defense Review

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By now, seasoned opponents – and untrained drive-by pundits – have lobbed their first salvos regarding the 2019 Missile Defense Review (MDR). There will be many more. Comments such as ‘a costly and dangerous new approach,’ ‘unrealistic,’ and my personal favorite, ‘Trump’s beautiful wall in the sky to match the one in Mexico,’ have drowned …

Why China and Others Should Welcome THAAD

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As Kim Jong-un’s regime charges forth with North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs, the foreign ministries of China and Russia have drawn attention to supposed destabilizing actions south of the 38th parallel, including the U.S. deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. As the argument goes, THAAD increases tension in an already fraught …

Stopping the Unstoppable—How will the U.S. Defeat Missiles of the Future?

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(Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in RealClearDefense) Earlier this year, former U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert asserted that current ballistic missile defense technology would “reac[h] the asymptote of our limits” within “about ten years.” This fact stands in stark contrast to another cold reality: the offensive ballistic missile capabilities of U.S. …