We designated the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, Admiral Jim Stavridis, as the commander for the ballistic defense mission.
The U.S. needs no theater ballistic defense missiles deployed on its territory (Canada and Mexico are not a threat), and so will have none available to help with defense against strategic missiles.
The Quadrennial Defense Review and Ballistic Missile Defense Review, which Secretary Gates released two weeks ago, present a plan to further strengthen our preeminent conventional forces to defend our nation and our allies.
We agreed to a set of command and control procedures for ballistic missile defense.
It means that NATO will now have an operationally meaningful ballistic missile defense mission.
The way to achieve this is through the construction of an effective system of ballistic missile defense.
The SM-3 missiles are part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system.
We understand, however, that the Navy and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization have completed -- and reached agreement on -- the requested analysis.
Instead, the cancellation seems to have been largely driven by the recommendations of Lieutenant General Ronald Kadish , who heads the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.
And one of the things that will be essential for upgrading any ballistic missile defense will be the use of space and, most notably, space sensors.
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" He declared that "a robust, sea-based, lower-tier theater ballistic missile defense capability, found in the Navy Area Missile Defense Program, is critical to reducing operational risk to the warfighter.
The Zumwalt class DDG 1000 destroyers designed from the keel up to handle this and future threats, now will be limited to three ships without a ballistic missile defense capability.
In the course of a series of penetrating speeches on security matters, Gov. George W. Bush has spoken about the need for an effective ballistic missile defense which would also protect America's allies.
These dual independent sensors will enhance early warning of missile launches around the globe, support the nation's ballistic missile defense system, greatly expand our technical intelligence gathering capability, and bolster situational awareness for warfighters on the battlefield.
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The Navy, driven to meet a near-term requirement contained in a dramatically changing national ballistic missile defense (BMD) strategy, has, without any supporting analysis, chosen to back-fit and concurrently build more of the 30-year-old-design Aegis Arleigh Burke class DDG51 destroyers with only the most basic BMD capability.
Defense will continue to be outlawed against intercontinental ballistic missiles, while defense will be encouraged against their less capable cousins, theater ballistic missiles.
It is a Strategic Defense Initiative aimed ultimately at finding a nonnuclear defense against ballistic missiles.
Fourth, you have to ignore the fact that the Russians already have a territorial defense against ballistic missile attack.
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The upshot of such a move may well be that the United States fields neither a credible force of B-2s nor an effective defense against ballistic missile attack.
Although it is never mentioned in the movie, there is only one reason why such a nightmare scenario might arise: The United States has no defense against ballistic missile attack.
Another analysis by retired intelligence officer William Lee makes clear moreover, that -- even if the Treaty were still in effect -- the fact that first the USSR and subsequently Russia deployed and maintained a prohibited territorial defense against ballistic missile attack would offer grounds to declare the Treaty null and void.
Sea-based missile defense is vital to our overall ability to defend ourselves, but it is not a substitute for the land-based system which is designed to provide defense against longer range ballistic missiles.
For starters, the Treaty's Article I flatly prohibited the deployment of any territorial defense against "strategic" ballistic missiles.
Then, in 1998, the blue-ribbon Commission on Ballistic Missile Threats chaired by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warned that others might seek such a capability.
In recent weeks, the Defense Department has begun to float its own idea for providing an emergency defense against a very limited ballistic missile threat.
It can be achieved most rapidly, most efficiently and most affordably from the sea, by adapting the Navy's AEGIS fleet air defense system to shoot down ballistic missiles.
From August 1998 to February 2000, Myers was commander-in-chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Space Command, and commander of Air Force Space Command, responsible for U.S. defense via space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations.
But Putin was less successful in convincing South Korea that U.S. plans to build a missile defense system violates the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Moreover, because protecting America's entire civilian electronic infrastructure is not fiscally feasible and because a ballistic missile is the most likely delivery vehicle for an EMP attack, the most prudent method to protect America is a missile defense system that could destroy a ballistic missile before it reaches U.S. airspace.
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