This is no time to go wobbly on missile defense
By James Durso, opinion contributor — 05/23/20 05:30 PM EDT
As the U.S. starts to recover from the coronavirus it must not neglect the ongoing political competition in Asia, which hasn’t been working from home while Americans were worrying about hand sanitizer and social distancing.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020 continued Congress’s bipartisan support for effective missile defense but, as Michaela Dodge of the National Institute for Public Policy notes, the NDAA diverges from the Trump administration’s 2019 Missile Defense Review (MDR) in that it “appears to discourage building missile defense capabilities against sophisticated threats†— i.e. Russia and China — and relegates it to countering “the developing and increasingly complex missile threat posed by rogue states†i.e., Iran and North Korea.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/499313-this-is-no-time-to-go-wobbly-on-missile-defense
