Stephen J. Cimbala & Lawrence J. Korb
In his early days in office, President Donald Trump proposed a program to develop and eventually deploy an “Iron Dome for America.” The proposal is essentially a comprehensive antimissile and air defense system for the US homeland against future threats of attacks from ballistic, hypersonic, and advanced cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial attacks “from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries.”—read Russia, China, and North Korea, respectively.[1]
To develop this program, President Trump tasked the US defense community with submitting within 60 days—by the end of March—a “reference architecture, capabilities-based requirements, and an implementation plan for the next-generation missile defense shield.”[2]
The Trump administration’s ambitious plans for nationwide defenses deserve serious scrutiny about whether they are feasible—from the standpoint of available and foreseeable technology and cost—and desirable, from the standpoint of deterrence stability.
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