Missile defense obsession lessens US security
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
04/30/07
President Bush’s plan to deploy missile defenses in Central Europe will reduce U.S. security, not enhance it. Installing radar for tracking incoming missiles in the Czech Republic and anti-missile interceptors in Poland could do more harm than good. Ostensibly, the European radar and interceptors are aimed at the future threat of nuclear-armed Iranian missiles. But Russia suspects — perhaps with good reason — that the real purpose of the deployments is to cement the security guarantees the United States has given to the two former Russian allies. In addition, Russia fears, also with justification, that the missile defenses could be augmented someday and used against Russian missiles...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1961
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+defence
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
04/30/07
President Bush’s plan to deploy missile defenses in Central Europe will reduce U.S. security, not enhance it. Installing radar for tracking incoming missiles in the Czech Republic and anti-missile interceptors in Poland could do more harm than good. Ostensibly, the European radar and interceptors are aimed at the future threat of nuclear-armed Iranian missiles. But Russia suspects — perhaps with good reason — that the real purpose of the deployments is to cement the security guarantees the United States has given to the two former Russian allies. In addition, Russia fears, also with justification, that the missile defenses could be augmented someday and used against Russian missiles...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1961
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+defence
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
rudkla - 1. Mai, 18:05
