You say that as soon as America starts pouring concrete to construct anti-missile defences this will constitute a violation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
We need to increase our military capability in the Western Pacific, to include our own anti-missile and anti-ship ballistic-missile capabilities as well as enhanced anti-submarine forces.
Should the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -- which effectively precludes national anti- missile defenses and which has hampered the fielding of effective theater missile protection -- be preserved?
The anti-anti-missile crowd is, moreover, trying to sweet-talk the Kremlin into dropping its hysterical objections to limited missile defenses in Europe by making them dependent on Russian systems.
In political terms, the anti-missile network proposed by Mr Clinton, calling for the eventual deployment of 250 interceptors, is nowhere near robust enough to satisfy the keenest supporters of anti-missile defence on the Republican side.
This is the effect of allowing the desire to preserve the obsolete 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty to drive policy and programmatic decisions, rather than a goal of optimizing the coverage, cost-effectiveness or speed with which anti-missile systems can be deployed.
It would require rethinking the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty--which, among other problems, blocks Americans from using a theater-anti-missile system to defend the U.S. homeland. (We can only use it to defend troops abroad.) And a more urgent threat would require Mr. Clinton to spend money on defenses rather than other favored White House causes.
Importantly, the feasibility of U.S. hit-to-kill missile defense technology has just been demonstrated once again by the Patriot PAC-3 anti-missile system in a test on Monday at the White Sands test range.
The Cornwall carries a 4.5 inch MK8 gun, Goal Keeper CIWS close in weapon systems, Sea Wolf anti-missile system, Harpoon missile launchers, two 20mm close range guns, Lynx MK8 helicopter armament, anti-ship missiles, and one of the most sophisticated command and control communications systems on water.
For example, their SA-12 missile, nominally an anti-aircraft missile, also has capability against tactical ballistic missiles.
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For the PLA, anti-missile systems, Aegis-class guided-missile cruisers, near-top-of-the-line F-16s fitted out with the latest air-to-air missiles, "over-the-horizon" long-range radar - all of this equipment is either in Taiwan, on its way or "under consideration" - are threats that can be coped with militarily.
In an article entitled "Missile Defense at Last" ( see attached), Mr. Krauthammer calls attention to the absurdity of the present situation -- in which even the Clinton Administration acknowledges the need for deployment of anti-missile defenses in light of the burgeoning proliferation of missile-borne weapons of mass destruction, yet it proposes to afford the Russians a veto over any such deployment.
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Its four new nuclear missiles - some probably with multiple warheads - coupled with its recently demonstrated anti-ballistic-missile and anti-satellite intercept capability cannot be ignored.
Mr Haggerty reckons this would require (for openers) striking around 450 targets, including more than 20 command, control and early-warning radar centres, 150 SAM sites, 205 aircraft shelters, 32 additional air-base targets, 27 surface-to-surface (SS) missile batteries and 12 anti-ship cruise-missile batteries.
Ten divisions equipped with the new S-500 anti-missile system are set to become the backbone of the country's missile defences.
The land-based anti-missile rocket is to be launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific in hopes of destroying a modified Minuteman missile fired into space 20 minutes earlier from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 4, 300 miles (6, 880 kms) away in California.
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The prior investment in infrastructure makes this far and away the most cost-effective, flexible and rapid means of fielding limited anti-missile systems, leaving ample funds available to bring other, complementary missile-defense technologies on line in due course.
In fact, the New York Times reported on Saturday that Team Obama is poised to look at alternatives - sea-based missile defenses or putting those or other anti-missile systems ashore someplace other than Poland and the Czech Republic.
One of these amendments would have foreclosed the option to deploy space-based anti-missile weapons.
"It may be a special, mobile, non-strategic anti-missile force, " Ivashov told a news conference.
Israel could in the meantime upgrade its PAC-2 anti-missile batteries responsible for contending with medium-range missiles, with US-made PAC-3s.
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These could involve ground-based anti-missile systems, airborne lasers and space-based sensors and, in due course, weapons (interceptors and directed energy).
Now, in cooperation with the U.S., it must overcome technological hurdles that have left America's own multibillion-dollar anti-missile program mired.
Kadish's leadership, engineering challenges and quality control problems that have plagued the development of successive hit-to-kill anti-missile systems have been largely overcome.
Here the issue is not so much secrecy as the fact that other, all-American anti-missile projects are backed by stronger military and industrial lobbies.
The President should acknowledge that the earliest deployments of sea-based anti-missile systems will inevitably be of somewhat limited capability, while pledging to improve them as rapidly as possible.
This ignores the deterring effect of uncertainty that even-less-than-perfect anti-missile technologies introduce in the minds of attackers, especially if differing technologies are used in a layered and synergistic approach.
As long as Mr. Bush permits the Treaty to bind the United States, he will find himself unable to ready the most militarily efficacious and cost- effective anti-missile systems possible.
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Having set in train his defensive program, Mr. Bush can go to the American people and elicit their support for the next steps initially, the relatively low-cost upgrades to the Aegis system and then, as needed, other complementary and cost-effective anti-missile systems (the most attractive option being space-based defenses).
Having set in train his defensive program, Mr. Bush can go to the American people and elicit their support for the next steps initially, the relatively low-cost upgrades to the Aegis system and then, as needed, other complementary and cost-effective anti-missile systems (the most attractive option being space-based defenses).
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