Missile Defense Review a Multi-Billion IOU to White House
By Paul McLeary on January 17, 2019 at 5:36 PM
PENTAGON: Military and civilian leaders at the Pentagon are portraying the new Missile Defense Review as a common-sense response to aggressive Chinese and Russian investments in new hypersonic weapons and faster, longer-range missiles.
The review marks “a new era in missile defense†undersecretary for policy John Rood said at the Pentagon Thursday. But mostly what the review, released Thursday, amounts to is a giant IOU for what could amount to hundreds of billions of dollars in future budgets for new sensors, ground and space-based radars, new and upgraded missiles, and newly-dug missile silos in Alaska, California and an unnamed third site in the United States.
But little of that money will be seen in the fiscal year 2020 budget, due out next month.
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