GAO Report Doubts Obama’s Missile Defense Plans
System to Cost Too Much, Unlikely to Work Properly
by Jason Ditz,
December 22, 2010
It wasn’t so long ago that President Obama scrapped the Bush Administration’s plan for missile defense in Europe, amid complaints that the plan cost far too much and probably wouldn’t work as advertised.
But now the The new report comes just a week after the administration’s most recent missile defense test, in the Pacific Ocean. The test was a failure. It was an attempt to repeat a January test, which was also a failure.
The US spends roughly $10 billion a year on its missile defense programs, ostensibly to protect itself from Iran, whose missiles can’t reach Europe, let alone North America. That’s probably a good thing, since the defense system doesn’t work anyhow.
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Claus Eric Hamle
December 23rd, 2010 at 6:54 am
Trident chief missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org-resigned because the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming first strike capability and wrote First Strike! The Pentagon´s Strategy For Nuclear War and Nuclear Empire (ch. 9 on anti-submarine warfare). Bob Aldridge wrote on the missiles to be deployed on ships in the Black Sea in Bulgaria and on land in Romania and Poland by 2015: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike". The Russians will have no choice but Launch On Warning and it may happen by mistake.
pendulum
December 23rd, 2010 at 9:57 am
if it was an attempt to repeat the past failure it was a huge success.