Strategic deployment schedules would be missed, placing operations at risk.

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This asymmetry is not crucial at the present level of strategic-missile deployment, since there are enough weapons to punch through these defenses.

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Continued development and deployment of strategic offensive and defensive weapons, particularly naval, ballistic, space and cyber forces.

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The requirement to perform two such operations in an overlapping time frame, while maintaining other critical deployment and retain a strategic reserve would strain a force of this size and character, perhaps to the breaking point.

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For starters, the Treaty's Article I flatly prohibited the deployment of any territorial defense against "strategic" ballistic missiles.

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Strategic Defense: The United States should, as a critical part of this strategic package approach, begin preparations at once for deployment of the first phases of defenses against ballistic missiles.

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