Ballistic Missile Defense Story Is Good, Bad, and Ugly
By Henry F. Cooper Friday, 27 March 2020 04:40 PM Current | Bio | Archive
Without saying so, Loren Thompson’s March 23, 2020 Forbes article implicitly described "the good, the bad and the ugly" of the Pentagon’s current ballistic missile defense (BMD) plans and programs.
His title emphasized that the theater high altitude area defense (THAAD) system can be important to protecting the U.S. homeland. Since I was the missile defense acquisition executive that launched THAAD in 1992, that was a gratifying assessment.
However, I never considered THAAD to be a homeland defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Indeed, that capability was then banned by the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with the Soviet Union.
https://www.newsmax.com/henryfcooper/bmd-thaad-sdi-abm/2020/03/27/id/960286/
