Improved missile defense essential to countering North Korea, Iran

[rangerrebew]

Improved missile defense essential to countering North Korea, Iran
By Patty-Jane Geller, Opinion Contributor — 09/23/21 08:35 AM EDT
 

Earlier this month, the House Armed Services Committee unanimously agreed to an amendment expressing support for deploying the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) before the end of the decade. The NGI is intended to upgrade the nation’s homeland missile defense.

Consistent with longstanding policy from both Democratic and Republican administrations, the next-generation system would give our missile defenses the additional capacity and capabilities needed to keep ahead of growing ballistic missile threats from rogue states such as North Korea or Iran. The committee’s bipartisan support is reassuring in the face of calls to limit U.S. homeland defense.

America’s limited intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) defenses are clearly designed to defend against rogue states with only modest nuclear-strike capacity. Our defenses would be quickly overwhelmed by adversaries with large numbers of nuclear-armed long-range missiles. Yet Russia and China claim that advancements to U.S. missile defense would negate their abilities to successfully retaliate against a U.S. first nuclear strike. Thus, they say, next-gen defenses would disrupt any concepts of assured retaliation, and harm stability among great powers.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/573554-improved-missile-defense-essential-to-countering-north-korea-iran?rl=1

[rangerrebew]

Here I was starting to believe, like Gen. Milley, that all our  military needed to be fearsome was PC and CRT.

[EdinVA]

Russia and China claim that advancements to U.S. missile defense would negate their abilities to successfully retaliate against a U.S. first nuclear strike.

We are still stupid enough to believe..... 

[PeteS in CA]

Almost cutting off Israel's Iron Dome funding was not the wisest move. Israel and the US have been peers and partners at multiple levels of missile defense. Antisemitism has consequences, not all easily foreseeable.

[DB]

Regarding NK and Iran, they don't need a missile to deliver a nuke.

A ship sailed into any harbor/coastal city USA is vulnerable to a nuke attack and destroys much of the evidence leading to who did it.

That's the reality of it.

[catfish1957]

Entrusting anything to this Clown Car administration is a bad deal.

They can't improve anything.   That is has been proven over and over and without a doubt the past 8 months.