The Hill:
The more North Korea launches intercontinental ballistic missiles, the more obvious the obvious becomes — now is not the time for congressional defense committees to do anything that would impede America’s advancements in air and missile defense.
This fact is not lost on President Trump or our allies, as the U.S. and Poland have agreed to put PATRIOT defense systems in Poland, a country that still bears the scars of how vulnerable a nation can be when it has inadequate air defenses.
And it’s a harsh reality that is certainly not lost on our allies who have lost forces to friendly fire, primarily because command-and-control technology developed in the 1980s are still in use.
The world has come to yet another perilous crossroads — and it is critical that our policy and budget experts stay focused and committed to upgrades within the Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD) program.
America’s men and women who comprise the world’s most dominant ground forces on frontlines around the world must have the capability to destroy any missile or airborne threat that our enemies might launch against our troops. What global hotspots like Iran, Eastern Europe and of course North Korea have taught us is that those threats are only increasing in volume and complexity.
The threats are real. The ability to respond must be just as real.
