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 …
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Living on the Edge: SDI, Able Archer and America’s Insurance Policy
Until recently, President Ronald Reagan’s March 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) sat on an ash heap of good ideas. Reviled and mocked as ‘Star Wars,’ SDI’s legacy is complicated. However, with the advent of European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) – an active AEGIS Ashore site in Romania (Poland upcoming), fielded Terminal High Altitude Area Defense …
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