Riki Ellison, President and Chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org details his thoughts on the new missile defense plan announced yesterday by the Department of Defense. His analysis and comments are as follows: President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made a historic announcement yesterday to rescind on previous agreements [...]
On July 30th, off the north west coast, a few hundred miles from Kauai on a breezy warm afternoon, the USS Hopper ( DDG 70 ) destroyer successfully tracked, discriminated and intercepted an ARAV ballistic missile target in its ascent phase. Time of interception was at 5:43 pm HST, 3 minutes after the target missile [...]
Even as the global economic crisis consumes President Obama’s attention — and the nation’s resources — he still must focus on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the situation in Pakistan. The new Brookings Institution Press book Budgeting for Hard Power: Defense and Security Spending Under Barack Obama (June 2009) analyzes the competing demands [...]