Today the Soviet Union is no more, but the ABM treaty lives on, still blocking effective missile defenses for this country.
In other words, President Clinton is taking the position that not only has no decision been taken to deploy missile defenses for the American people.
But Rumsfeld stopped short of proposing any new defenses for satellites or other space-based systems, saying the United States remains committed to the peaceful use of space.
The Coalition to Protect Americans Now believes that the United States can ill-afford to wait for five years (or longer) to begin deploying missile defenses for the American people.
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We are certain that your Administration will take the steps necessary including assigning the highest presidential priority and such resources as are needed to the task so as to ready missile defenses for prompt deployment.
The Navy became interested in such defenses for its ships later, but in the 1950s there was no practical way for Russia to target U.S. warships at sea with ballistic missiles, so the sea service too had other priorities.
It believes, however, that he like the Clinton Administration is making an even greater error today by eschewing the earliest practical deployment of highly effective missile defenses for the United States and its people, as called for by H.
In fact, it is a transparent Soviet-style ploy, aimed at creating further impediments to U.S. ballistic missile programs (including cooperation with allies like Britain and Israel) and undercutting the rationale behind efforts to deploy national missile defenses for the American people.
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He also emphasized the need for boost-phase defenses, for which sea-, air- and space-based weapons will be necessary.
Carter and Allison should be in difficulty anyway for substantive reasons: The former has been an inveterate opponent of effective strategic defenses and advocate for the obsolete Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
For another, were the Clinton Administration to refrain from negotiating new limits on theater missile defenses (nominally for the purpose of arbitrarily "demarcating" the distinction between anti-short-range systems and anti-long-range systems), U.S. theater defenses could be optimized to provide protection against all classes of ballistic missiles, at least under certain circumstances.
Artillery was gradually replaced by tactical missiles in the defensive role, but the Air Force was too busy building a fleet of long-range bombers and supersonic fighters to be bothered with ground-based air defenses, while Army troops had a clear need for such defenses.
So when the need for defenses against ballistic missiles arose, it was logical to give the job to the Army.
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With over 60 cruisers and destroyers Aegis-equipped, there is an obvious opportunity to provide mobile, layered defenses at sea for a fraction of the cost of other approaches.
Of course, President Bush is not the first occupant of the Oval Office to find Mr. Powell a determined opponent of missile defenses and advocate for preserving the ABM Treaty.
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And it was the input of these general staff people who went, in 1986, back with a major position to the politburo that they had to triple the budget for defenses in the northern flank or the Soviet Union would lose the war.
Military and White House officials have said current U.S. missile defenses are adequate for the present level of threat, and President Barack Obama said in an interview with ABC News this week that he does not think North Korea can carry out a missile attack on the United States.
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For that matter, deployed defenses can provide more robust security for the United States and its allies than would an agreement on fifty-percent reductions in Soviet strategic forces.
He led one of the top defenses in the country for an undefeated team.
The U.S. military often takes such steps during a crisis, despite any criticism for bolstering defenses.
At every juncture when he might have wavered, Mr. Bush has pressed for missile defenses without apology.
The Boston bombing is above all a reminder of the continuing need for heightened defenses against terror threats.
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Republicans in particular felt that substituting the threat of mass murder for real defenses was dangerous and immoral.
Allegations of legal crimes invite, indeed they call out, for legal defenses.
What is particularly appalling is that it would do so at the very moment that the requirement for its defenses against ballistic missile attack are becoming more necessary.
Fortunately, a newly released report. by the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense, the Space Relationship and the Twenty-First Century lays out a roadmap for such defenses.
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