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President Obama's Missile Defense Program Falls Behind the Threat


President Obama's Missile Defense Program Falls Behind the Threat

President Barack Obama has a proposed a woefully inadequate budget for missile defense for FY 2013, neglecting his duty to defend the United ...

President Obama's Missile Defense Policy: A Misguided Legacy

As a candidate, Barack Obama called ballistic missile defense programs “unproven” and vowed to cut them.[1] As President, Barack Obama ...

Obama's Missile Plan Decision: What It Means - NPR

President Obama's decision to abandon plans to deploy a controversial US missile defense system in Europe reverses a major Bush administration initiative.

President Obama's Legacy in Missile Defense

Overs eight years, President Obama invested $63.6 billion in missile defense in which he maintained existing systems, modernized and increased ...

Obama's Missile Defense Decision: The View From Europe

President Obama's decision to abandon the missile defense systems in Poland and Czech Republic agreed to by his predecessor has created a firestorm of ...

Washington Examiner: President Obama's missile defense failure ...

I don't agree with a missile defense system. Those words from Barack Obama in 2001 help explain his disturbing presidential decision to ...

Paper 6 - GCC Missile Defense- Obstacles on the Road to Integration

This paper addresses the following questions: (1) What threats are ballistic missile defense in the. Persian Gulf designed to address, and how might these ...

Excerpts - Why Missile Defense Won't Work | FRONTLINE - PBS

Whether or not one believes there is any threat serious enough to require deployment of a national missile defense, it makes no sense to advocate a concept that ...

The Need for a New Authorization for Use of Military Force

In September 2014, President Barack Obama announced a four-part plan to systematically destroy the so-called Islamic State (IS), a plan that ...

Obama's dangerous defense experiment

His actions, his under-resourced strategies, accelerated withdrawal plans and lead-from-behind policies have left the Pentagon far less able to ...

Missile Defense Systems at a Glance | Arms Control Association

The program was canceled by the Obama administration in order to focus on “proven, near-term missile defense programs that can provide more immediate defenses ...

Obama's Strategic Confusion - WSJ

Such a system, along with other components of a multilayered missile defense, would discourage the Iranians from finishing such a program by ...

The GOP claim that Obama scrapped a missile defense system as 'a ...

The first three phases of Obama's plan are proceeding on schedule. The plan also had a fourth European phase, which would have been aimed at ...

Increasing Nuclear Threats through Strategic Missile Defense

President Barack Obama replaced the Bush plan with a multi-stepped “European Phased Adaptive Approach.” The “EPAA” sought to deploy missile defenses ...

Remarks by the Vice President on Nuclear Security | whitehouse.gov

That's why, from the moment President Obama and I took office eight years ago—reducing the threat of a nuclear attack has been a chief national ...

- [H.A.S.C. No. 113-121] ADAPTING U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE FOR ...

... Missile Defense for Future Threats: Russia, China and Modernizing the NMD Act. ... system, would cost between $26 billion and $74 billion. A system of ...

Long-Range Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe - CRS Reports

Although the terms of the debate over the Bush-proposed European BMD capability have changed significantly in the wake of President Obama's ...

A New Approach for Theater Ballistic Missile Defense in the Asia

On September 17, 2009, President Barack Obama approved the creation of a “phased adaptive approach” to European missile defense, at the ...

The Obama Administration's Approach to U.S.-Israel Security ...

As Secretary Clinton said in March, “For Israel, there is no greater strategic threat than the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran.” While the most ...

President Obama must not surrender to Russia on missile defense

Since taking office, President Obama has conditioned his support for the third-site deployment of 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar ...