ISN: The April 2015 interim nuclear agreement with Iran generated speculation that a similar agreement may be possible with North Korea. However, Pyongyang has made emphatically clear that it will never abandon its nuclear arsenal and declared the Six Party Talks negotiations “null and void.” Kim Jong-un and all major senior government entities have vowed… read more
Forbes: The GOP is struggling to regain the reputation it once enjoyed as the party that understands how to defend America. That reputation, a legacy of the Reagan era, took a beating when George W. Bush presided over the invasion of Iraq — a campaign that contributed to the destabilization of the Middle East. The same year… read more
UPI: SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30 (UPI) — A laboratory has been opened in California by Lockheed Martin to develop next-generation target seekers for interceptor missiles. A seeker, no bigger than a loaf of bread, is the part of the interceptor that directly strikes an incoming missile. It locates and tracks the enemy warhead, sending trajectory… read more
Stars and Stripes: NAPLES, Italy — The Navy destroyer USS Porter arrived at its new home in southern Spain on Thursday, the third of four American warships to be stationed in Europe as part of a ballistic missile defense shield. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is equipped with an Aegis missile-tracking system designed to target and… read more
Defense News: WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee early Thursday voted to add billions to a list of Defense Department weapon programs from cuts, and signed off on a $495.9 billion base Pentagon budget and an $89.2 billion war account. In a bipartisan 60-2 vote, the committee approved its version of the national defense… read more
Military.com News: House lawmakers are limiting the amount of time the Navy will be able to lay up portions of its fleet ofcruisers from four years down to two years, citing combatant commanders’ need for the ships’ ballistic missile defense technologies. The current Navy plan allows the service to take two cruisers out of the… read more
U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania: This month, the United States will deliver a 9,000-ton boost to the ballistic missile defense (BMD) capabilities of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). With the arrival of the USS Porter, the third U.S. BMD-capable Aegis ship to be home-ported in Spain, the U.S. continues to meet its commitment to increasing… read more
Defense One: U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are pledging to deepen military cooperation in the coming years as America reinforces its pivot to the Asia-Pacific region. The most fundamental shift in military relations between the two countries rests in the agreement to come to the defense of either nations’ troops should… read more
Bristol Press: WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy recently praised the latest step in partnership between the United States and Poland. Murphy, a Democrat and member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and co-chairman of the bipartisan U.S. Senate Caucus on Poland, applauded Poland’s plan to purchase the Patriot missile defense systems from Raytheon… read more
Politico: The Pentagon has repeatedly said it doesn’t need — nor can it afford — a third anti-missile battery on American territory to defend against a possible attack from North Korea or Iran. But that hasn’t stopped congressional Republicans, ideologically predisposed to a more comprehensive missile shield than Democrats, from pushing for one on the… read more