{"id":658251,"date":"2010-02-08T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/increasing-ballistic-missile-threat-39194\/"},"modified":"2010-02-08T17:01:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:01:37","slug":"the-increasing-ballistic-missile-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658251","title":{"rendered":"The Increasing Ballistic Missile Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 02.08.10 10:00 AM posted by Jeffrey Chatterton<\/p>\n<p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iran-Missile-100119.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;The Pentagon\u0092s release of the &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/bmdr\/BMDR%20as%20of%2026JAN10%200630_for%20web.pdf&quot;&gt;Bal  listic Missile Defense Review confirmed that North Korea could be able to deploy a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile capable of striking the United States within the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/04\/nuclear-missile-threats-to-us-mount\/\/print\/&quot;&gt;The Washington Times reports that the review expressed serious concern over North Korea\u0092s two underground tests and its attempt to develop a long-range missile.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u0092s review also highlighted U.S. intelligence\u0092s concerns about the Iranian nuclear program and their pursuit of \u0093long-range ballistic missiles.\u0094 The report comes a day after Iran announced that it had launched a rocket into space, calling attention to the regime\u0092s serious efforts to gain this dangerous technology.&lt;spanid=&quot;more-25894&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The real concern is over how the United States can protect against such threats and ensure a credible deterrent to promote regional stability in the Middle East and East Asia. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has requested $8.4 billion dollars for the Missile Defense Agency.  The internal structure of this budget will serve to shift the U.S. missile defense posture away from defending against long-range missile attacks and toward countering short- and medium-range missiles. This plan is further outlined in the Ballistic Missile Defense Review Report.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Iran\u0092s nuclear ambitions and the intelligence estimates that North Korea could reach the U.S. with a missile within the decade, the Pentagon plan to deploy advanced variants of the SM-3 missiles will have \u0093some capability to knock out long-range missile warheads\u0094 and will not be ready until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the canceled deployment of interceptors in Easter Europe, the Heritage Foundation\u0092s Baker Spring &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/BallisticMissileDefense\/wm2624.cfm&quot;&gt;writes, \u0093The plan sets up a false choice between long- and short-range defenses in terms of sequencing, when the U.S. needs to field defenses against both short-range and longer-range missiles immediately.\u0094<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/08\/the-increasing-ballistic-missile-threat\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/08\/&#8230;issile-threat\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 02.08.10 10:00 AM posted by Jeffrey Chatterton &lt;\/p&gt;The Pentagon\u0092s release of the &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/bmdr\/BMDR%20as%20of%2026JAN10%200630_for%20web.pdf&quot;&gt;Bal listic Missile Defense Review confirmed that North Korea could be able to deploy a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile capable of striking the United States within the next decade. &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/04\/nuclear-missile-threats-to-us-mount\/\/print\/&quot;&gt;The Washington Times reports that the review expressed serious concern over North Korea\u0092s two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LeX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}