Missile Defense Madness: Myth Of Perfect Patriots, Magic THAAD, And The ICBM Shield
The reliability and capability claims attributed to anti-ballistic missile systems are getting way out of step with reality.
By Tyler RogowayDecember 4, 2017
With peer state competitors China and Russia in the periphery, along with an emboldened Iran, the looming threat posed by North Korea's long-range ballistic missiles has resulted in a frenzy of missile defense messaging that is often as wrong as it is in fashion. Emanating from the very tip-top of the America's government, the notion that missile interceptors are some sort of perfect panacea to ballistic missile wielding foes, even rogue states with relatively limited resources, is a lie. And despite the inaccurate claims made by the President on down the line, these systems do offer some form of defense against limited, low volume attacks and the more advanced the enemy missile is, the less reliable American interceptors would likely be under real-world conditions.
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