Congress and the American people need to understand that, despiterecent progress in putting missile defense systems in the field,the U.S. remains largely vulnerable to the ballistic missilethreat. The Bush Administration and Congress need to accelerate theeffort to develop and deploy effective missile defense by focusingon systems that offer the greatest capability.
In an April 6 press briefing at the Pentagon, Secretary of DefenseRobert Gates announced sweeping changes in a variety of defensemodernization. Congress and the American people need to understandwhy there are serious contradictions in Secretary Gates's announcedplan.
Missile Defense Agency pushes back, pointing Breaking Defense to positive report from Pentagon tester, laudatory comments from senior military officials and recent test wins.