Business Journal:
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Local and federal officials said Thursday they will keep promoting the Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center for a third continental missile interceptor site.
The U.S. Department of Defense yesterday released its long-awaited 2019 Missile Defense Review, which outlines the threat environment and “describes the policies, strategies and capabilities” that will guide its missile defense programs “to counter the expanding missile threats posed by rogue states and revisionist powers.”
The report left unresolved the question of whether to establish a proposed $3.6 billion East Coast Missile Defense Site, which would join existing continental missile interceptor sites in Alaska and California. In addition to Camp Garfield in Ravenna, Fort Drum in upstate New York and Fort Custer in southern Michigan are under consideration.
