It will be necessary to create a framework for keeping our defense capability in the current economical situation.
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Another factor in a credible defense is a balanced offense-defense capability, he said.
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All those concerned with obtaining maximum defense capability for the limited funds available should demand that this trend be reversed.
Because of the damage that a single nuclear weapon can do, an overlapping defense capability is required against a nuclear attack.
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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.
This decision, which we had agreed would need to be taken in Lisbon, now means that NATO has, for the first time, a theatre -- a territorial missile defense capability.
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.
President Barack Obama pledged during a visit to the region in November that the U.S. would maintain spending in the Asia-Pacific and "more broadly distribute" its regional defense capability, while maintaining a strong presence in Japan and South Korea.
As Gaffney notes, however, even at the high-end this necessary recapitalization of the Nation's defense capability will represent a mere four percent of the gross domestic product - - four cents on the American national dollar for national security.
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The cause for this disastrous oversight is the flawed Department of Defense Mobility Capability Study (MCS) that was preliminarily briefed to members of Congress in December 2005.
The operation validates the Center's longstanding support for and confidence in sea-based missile defense and its evolving capability to protect the American people.
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To be clear, the greatest single pockets of expertise and capability exist within the defense and intelligence communities.
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Professor GERALD STEINBERG (Bar Ilan University): There's a lot of criticism of Peretz as defense minister not only with no military capability but making grandiose speeches about capabilities about mission or war aims that just couldn't be met.
By so doing, the United States could make clear that its "national" missile defense system will actually be a global capability, thus denying critics and those who would divide America from her allies the argument that the former will be protected at the latters' expense.
The Davis-Hammond plan's abandonment of any global capability, however, makes effective defense of our allies impracticable and invites nations that desire missile defense to proceed on their own, individually or collectively.
Before the Supreme Court took away the line-item veto, Mr. Clinton used it to try to terminate three Defense Department programs that would have afforded some limited capability to operate in and control outer space.
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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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But since then it has appreciably evolved far beyond its original air defense capabilities to now include a proven anti-missile capability.
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The continuing decline in real defense spending posed a larger problem for defense planners seeking to maintain a credible two-MTW capability.
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.
"You will continue to see advanced capability added to the mix, " said a defense official in Washington.
In the absence of a clear and driving threat, such as that provided by the Soviet Union, its role was as a placeholder, allowing defense planners and budgeters to define a useful and affordable military capability that could respond to the range of known demands and unknown future contingencies.
Kadish declared that such a layered system, comprised over time of a range of systems to address an evolving threat, would likely utilize sea- and space-based missile defense "layers" to complement and add robustness to the ground-based capability he is preparing for deployment in Alaska.
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Mr. SHAUL MOFAZ (Defense Minister, Israel): (Through Translator) Israel cannot accept an Iran with nuclear capability.
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