A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) piece is citing multiple faults in the Obama Administration’s missile defense plans for Europe, which he announced in the wake of backing off the Bush Administration’s plan.
The report says the new plan lacks any clear guidance, a full schedule, and projections for its costs are likely overly optimistic. Even assuming the system becomes operational, it is unclear if it will work.
Which is really a pretty secondary concern, as the defense system’s nominal target, Iran, doesn’t have missiles which can reach most of Europe to begin with. Likewise, the prospect of dramatic overcosts is likely to be shrugged off by officials, who are spending on the system more for its own sake than anything else.
Still the questions about oversight are likely to continue going forward, particularly as other US programs have managed to lose billions of dollars and most officials seem to prefer frittering away billions when there is proper paperwork.
The missiles on ships in the Black Sea in Bulgaria and on land in Romania and Poland are necessary in a disarming first strike capability – to shoot down the Russian second strike force. Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org-wrote: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike". MAYBE only for blackmail. And the Russian answer will be Launch On Warning, maybe even Automatic Launch On Warning because of the bloody fools in the Pentagon.
Missile defense system which cannot even intercept test missiles which have been engineered to be intercepted to call the test a success. This, Reagan's Star Wars system, has been a boondoggle from the start and is now in its 30th year of testing. This system can be rendered useless with tinfoil and the idiots who concocted it only need to take off their own tinfoil hats to realize that it's all about graft and corruption.