Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

Dear Members and Friends,   As Memorial weekend approaches and we take time to reflect and celebrate upon a family member, a friend and or a patriot we have never met to bring a moment of solitude on their ultimate honor of self-sacrifice for the better good of those they loved, and for those that… read more

Dear members and friends,   The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) released its annual budget request yesterday on May 24, 2017, requesting a total of $7.9 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018; $379 million more than MDA’s budget request for FY17. MDA’s budget request is proposed each year by the President for consideration by Congress. Following… read more

Dear Members and Friends,   A small country of 17 million in the watershed of the Rhine River as it enters the English Channel, plays beyond its size and above water in its leadership to NATO on air and missile defense. Netherlands brings forward for NATO a maritime and land capability of air and missile… read more

Dear Members and Friends,   Yesterday, North Korea launched the Pukguksong-2/Polaris-2 – refined from its earlier launch of February 12 (link) – using a cold launch and solid fuel from a mobile platform, based off of a Chinese submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) the JL-1, off of North Korea’s own self-made and produced Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL). This particular test was… read more

Dear Members and Friends, In the relevance of over 100 combat intercepts of ballistic missiles from the Houthis in Yemen – supported by Iran – into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, President Trump signed a $110 billion deal (link) that will include providing the THAAD missile defense system that will greatly enhance Saudi Arabia’s defense from… read more

Dear Members and Friends, On the centennial anniversary of Dutch Air Defense, in the central part of Netherlands in Utrecht province at the Netherlands National Military Museum in Soest, we honored and co-hosted with the Netherlands, the first Dutch Missile Defender of the Year event. This Dutch ceremony, on the 100th anniversary of the start… read more

Dear Members and Friends,   Caught by surprise, the North Koreans yesterday successfully tested a brand new Hwasong-12 missile, first seen and introduced for the first time last month on the April 15th, 2017 during a North Korean military parade (link). The Hwasong-12 is a liquid-fueled single-stage missile with a liquid divert and altitude capability for accuracy of… read more

The deployment of the THAAD ballistic missile defense system in Seongju County on the Korean Peninsula, operated and paid for by the United States, is to defend all of the United States military forces on the Peninsula from the North Korean nuclear ballistic missile threat. An over 50,000 American force deployed to bases and ports around… read more

In Alaska, in the midst of the Northern Edge exercise (link), the official visit of the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for the Arctic Council (link), the visits of the missile defense sites in Alaska by the Chief of the National Guard, Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel and the Hawaiian… read more

The 49th State of America, Alaska, on top of the World is the vanguard for our nation against all threats coming over the top of the world into the lower 49 states. This American vanguard has stood guard from its outposts in the outer Aleutian Islands and its interior of critical Air Force and Army bases from the threats… read more