An Iron Dome for America?

Photo caption: Army executes Iron Dome Defense System – live fire at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, United States. June 23, 2021. Photo credit: David Huskey via DVIDS. Public Domain. Commentary article by Michael E. O’Hanlon. Brookings – March 25, 2025. Executive order: The White House.

In his recent address to a joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump reiterated his desire to build an air and missile defense system for the entire United States. Invoking Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative or “Star Wars” vision of 1983, Trump said that we now have the technology to do what Reagan intended but was unable to achieve. There is at least partial evidence to support Trump’s goal: Ukraine has […]

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