President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to begin the construction of a new missile defense system that will protect the United States from attack akin to Israel’s “Iron Dome.”
Trump asserted that growing threats from America’s adversaries increased the need to ramp up military defenses.
He noted that former President Ronald Reagan was the first to try to build a comprehensive missile defense shield for the U.S.
However, Reagan’s project was canceled before its completion.
In a statement, Trump said:
“Over the past 40 years, rather than lessening, the threat from next-generation strategic weapons has become more intense and complex with the development by peer and near-peer adversaries of next-generation delivery systems and their own homeland integrated air and missile defense capabilities.”
The president added that allistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles and other advanced aerial attacks pose the “most catastrophic” military risks to the U.S.
The order states that the U.S. will “provide for the common defense of its citizens and the Nation by deploying and maintaining a next-generation missile defense shield.”
Within the next 60 days, the Department of Defense will submit a plan for implementing the system to the president.
The plan “at a minimum” must include plans for:
• Defense of the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries.
• Acceleration of the deployment of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor layer.
• Development and deployment of proliferated space-based interceptors capable of boost-phase intercept.
• Deployment of underlayer and terminal-phase intercept capabilities postured to defeat a countervalue attack.
• Development and deployment of a custody layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
• Development and deployment of capabilities to defeat missile attacks prior to launch and in the boost phase.
• Development and deployment of a secure supply chain for all components with next-generation security and resilience features.
• Development and deployment of non-kinetic capabilities to augment the kinetic defeat of ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks.
The order places a premium on moving quickly so that it can be implemented into the U.S. budget.
It also calls for increasing “bilateral and multilateral cooperation on missile defense technology development, capabilities, and operations.”
Further, the order seeks to improve “theater missile defenses of forward-deployed United States troops and allied territories, troops, and populations.”
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