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Rebuilding a U.S. integrated air and missile defense capability, slashed to the bone by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, will not be easy, three former directors of the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization (JIAMDO) said on Monday.
The demand to find the most effective ways to end the killing of soldiers and Marines from improvised explosive devices hit the pause button on joint air and missile defense, retired Army Lt. Gen. Howard Bromberg, who headed JIAMDO in 2005 to 2006 said.
“What was killing Americans?,” he said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies forum in Washington, D.C. “It wasn’t missiles.” The decision to shift emphasis — budget, limited access to the highest levels of Pentagon, downgrade in the rank of the JIAMDO leader over the next 15 years — was about relevancy to answering the immediate threat.
