Missile Defense

NATO: The Mother of All Deals

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Foreign Affairs, Nato Summit 2012, Nato Summit Chicago, Nato Summit, Nato, Russia, Missile Defense, Russia Nato, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

There are major foreign policy items to which the Russians attribute very great importance but are of little significance to us, and vice versa. Call it a major saliency differential. This seems to lay the ground for a major deal that has yet to be struck.

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Obama's Dangerous Approach to Missile Defense

Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Obama Administration, Obama, Defense Spending, Department of Defense, Defense, Barack Obama, Missile Defense, National Defense, National Security, Missile Defense Shield, Nato Summit 2012, Politics News
Ken Blackwell

By rejecting Obama's position on homeland missile defense, Congress would both ensure taxpayer dollars are used more effectively and our country is well-protected. That approach would be a new way of doing business at the Department of Defense and real change that Americans can embrace.

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Missile defenses hobbled by uncertainties

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Ballistic Missile, Missile Defense, Politics News
The Center for Public Integrity

By R. Jeffrey SmithiWatch NewsAfter the successful U.S. interception of a simulated North Korean warhead in a 2007 test, Lt. Gen. Henry Obering III ...

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Needs Over MEADS

Mark Pfeifle | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Persian Gulf, John McCain, Department of Defense, Missile Defense, Government Waste, Iran, Defense Spending, Leon Panetta, Defense Budget, North Korea, Meads, Politics News
Mark Pfeifle

For reasons that defy all logic, the administration wishes to spend yet another $400 million on MEADS, the Medium Extended Air Defense System, while simultaneously acknowledging that the missile system will never get off the ground.

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Reports Cast Doubt On One Of Obama's Key Defense Programs

AP | DESMOND BUTLER | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: u.s. Missile Interceptors, Video, European Missile Defense, Missile Defense, Missile Defense Shield, Defense Department, World News

WASHINGTON — Major delays, cost overruns and critical technological problems are plaguing a missile defense system designed to protect the Unite...

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Andrea Stone

Tea Party-Backed Rep: Obama Will 'Trade Away' Secrets In Second Term

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Russia, 2012 Elections, Election 2012 Blog, Missile Defense, Elections 2012, Russian Spies, Credo-Superpac, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Video, Pennsylvania, Spies, Tea Party, Mike Fitzpatrick Pennsylvania, Mike Fitzpatrick, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A freshman Republican congressman currently campaigning for his second term recently suggested that President Barack Obama will reveal s...

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Boehner Defends Obama Against GOP Candidate's Criticism

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Russia, Video, 2012 Elections, Boehner, John Boehner, Missile Defense, Obama-Hot-Mic, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Romney, Politics News

House Speaker John Boehner defended President Barack Obama on Tuesday against recent comments made by Mitt Romney. Romney criticized Obama on Monda...

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Try a Little Nuclear Sanity

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Ed Markey, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Arms Control, Missile Defense, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Peace, Deterrence, North Korea, World News
Lawrence Wittner

The real nuclear threat to the United States does not lie in the fact that it does not (or will not) possess enough nuclear weapons to deter a nuclear attack. Rather, it is that there is no guarantee that nuclear deterrence works.

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Obama's Budget Bomb: He Proposes Spending Increases, While Disarming America

Ken Blackwell | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Pentagon Spending, Budget Cuts, Economy, Budget, Economic Crisis, Government Spending, Obama Budget 2012, Obama Administration, Defense Budget, US Economy, Pentagon Budget, National Security, Obama Budget, Financial Crisis, Defense Spending, U.S. Economy, Missile Defense, Politics News
Ken Blackwell

In terms of actual cuts in defense spending, Obama is shifting the focus from what is known to work in missile defense to developing futuristic missile intercepts which will require years of experimenting at great expense to taxpayers while a vulnerable America waits.

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U.S. Missile Defense Fantasy is Souring U.S.-Russian 'Reset'

Elliott Negin | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Russia, Arms Control, New Start Treaty, Missile Defense, Politics News
Elliott Negin

In his widely praised April 2009 Prague speech, President Obama presented a farsighted goal to strengthen U.S. and global security by reducing nuclear arsenals around the world. But since then, his administration has undermined its efforts to meet that laudable objective.

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New York Times Turns Blind Eye to EMP Threat

James Jay Carafano | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Defense, Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States From Electromagnetic Pulse Attack, Missile Defense, New York Times, Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, Emp, Electromagnetic Pulse Attack, Foreign Policy, World News
James Jay Carafano

Times reporter William J. Broad recently pooh-poohed concerns about U.S. vulnerability to an electromagnetic pulse attack. It is the stuff of "science fiction," he implied. Along the way, he gets key facts wrong and omits many others that refute this view. Here are the facts.

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Senate Hits the Mark on Missile Defense

Mark Pfeifle | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Aegis, Congress, Super Committee, Robert Gates, Missile Defense, Iran, Defense Spending, Drones, Walter Pincus, Politics News
Mark Pfeifle

The implications of Iran's growing bellicosity are increasingly more difficult for the United States.

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WATCH: Newscaster Flips Obama The Bird On Live TV

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Russia, Russian Newscaster Obama Finger, Russian Newscaster Flips Obama the Bird, Tatyana Limanova Obama Finger, Missile Defense, Obama Russia Reset, Dmitry Medvedev, Video, Tatyana Limanova, Obama Missile Defense, Russian Newscaster Obama Middle Finger, u.s. Russia Missile Defense, Obama Missile Shield, Russia Obama, World News

It's the finger heard around the world. Tatyana Limanova, a newscaster for Russia's REN TV, a privately held network, has taken the Internet by sto...

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Mitt Romney Recasts Himself as a Neocon

The Morningside Post | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Gop, Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Missile Defense, New Start Treaty, President Barack Obama, Department of Defense, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Mitt Romney, Libya, Defense, Iraq, Foreign Policy, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
The Morningside Post

Any potential Romney administration would be heavy on defense spending, to the delight of neocons, but this would run counter to the current climate on Capitol Hill of cuts and more cuts.

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Spain To Host U.S. Missile Defense System

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR and SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Spain US Ships, Iranian Nuclear Program, US Spain, US Missile Defense, Spain Iran, Missile Defense, Spain Missile Defense, Spain, Iran, Iran Nuclear, Anti-Missile, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News

BRUSSELS — The Obama administration and the Spanish government have agreed to base Aegis Cruisers on Spain's coast, as part of the anti-ballisti...

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How to Save a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Star Wars, Pentagon, Nuclear Disarmament, Balanced Budget, Nuclear Weapons, Budget Cuts, Missile Defense, Federal Spending, Budget, Nuclear Weapons Modernization, Desmond Tutu, National Missile Defense, Politics News
Lawrence Wittner

By scrapping plans for nuclear weapons "modernization" and for national missile defense, programs that are both useless and provocative, the United States would save $271 billion.

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Good Times for the Nuclear Weapons Budget

Benjamin Loehrke | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Deficit, Nuclear Weapons, Robert Gates, Missile Defense, Budget, Joe Cirincione, Cold War, Obama, Submarine, Defense Budget, Leon Panetta, Politics News
Benjamin Loehrke

As the rest of Washington is bracing for cuts, the funding spigot for nuclear weapons and delivery systems is about to get thrown wide open. What does this say about our security priorities?

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The X-Men Didn't Save Us

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Cuban Missile Crisis, X-Men, Missile Defense, United States, Kevin Bacon, Mutants, X-Men: First Class, World War III, Robert McNamara, Soviet Union, Entertainment News
Joe Cirincione

It wasn't the mutants. It was humans that caused the Cuban Missile Crisis. Only luck saved us from nuclear war. But other than that, the new film, X-Men: First Class, gets a lot right about the historic crisis that is central to its plot.

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Czech Republic Withdraws From U.S. Missile Shield Plan

AP | KAREL JANICEK | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Czech Republic Missile Defense Plan, Missile Defense, Nato, William Lynn, Alexander Vondra, Obama Administration, U.S. Missile Defense Plan, Barack Obama, Czech Republic, World News

PRAGUE — The Czech Republic is withdrawing from U.S. missile defense plans out of frustration at its diminished role, the Czech defense minister...

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Just Say No to MEADS

Mark Pfeifle | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Germany, National Debt, Robert Gates, Budget, Patriot System, Missile Defense, Angela Merkel, United States, European Union, Barack Obama, Meads, World News
Mark Pfeifle

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) is over budget, 10 years late and needs another $804 million to complete its next phase. It's time for the U.S. and Germany to collectively decide to end the MEADS program.

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Obama: U.S., Russia To Work On Missile Defense

AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: US Russia Relations, G8 Summit France, G8 Summit, Missile Defense, US Russia Missile Defense, Russia, Obama Europe Trip, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Deauville France, World News

DEAUVILLE, France — It is no simple thing to push the "reset" button on U.S.-Russian relations. Trying to move beyond years of inherited mistru...

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Biden Pushes For Russia WTO Bid

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Joe Biden in Russia, Wto, Biden Visits Russia, World Trade Organization, Jill Biden, Missile Defense, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, START Treaty@Y:World, Slidepollajax, Dmitry Medvedev, World News

GORKY, Russia (AP) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday gave Russia's president a strong commitment to helping his nation join the World Trade...

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Voters Will Reward Democrats for Budget Courage

Ronnie Shows | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Budget Deficit, Missile Defense, Budget, Bush Tax Cuts, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Ronnie Shows

Democrats need to get serious about budget cuts, even to programs they support, if they are going to have the political capital that they will need to raise tax rates on the wealthiest one percent of Americans.

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Our Coup d' Etat, by Accident

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Pentagon Spending, Civilian Policy, Tunisia, Missile Defense, Napoleon, Bin Laden, Betty McCollum, Bahrain, Defense Budget, Veterans, Ushahidi, Secretary Gates, Civil-Military Relations, Gorgon Stare, Afghanistan, Nascar, Military-Strategy, Geo-Spatial Technology, F-35, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

If we Americans and our civilian-elected leaders don't come to terms with our over-dependence on the military, we will cede increasing authority to an institution that doesn't want it and should not have it.

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Chinese Missiles and U.S. Loss of Influence in Asia -- Round II

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taiwan, Warfare, Chinese Military, Missile Defense, United States Navy, China, War, World News
Franz-Stefan Gady

Revisiting my previous post "Aircraft Carriers and Chinese Missiles: Time to Rethink US Naval Doctrine" , I would like to approach the issue from a di...

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