Filed under: Central Asia, Russia / Caucacus, Technology, War | Tags: czech, military, missiles, obama, poland, russia, shield, space
Updated missile shields plans have nothing to do with a decrease of tensions with Russia nor a desire by the Obama administration to repudiate any of the confrontational military policies of the Bush adminsitration. These recent actions with regards to Obama’s missile shield are simply an attempt to goad the Russians into supporting anti-Iranian policies while continuing to maintain a crucial strategic presence in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. In fact, these systems are decisively more aggressive as they offer the opportunity for movement of the once static shields and a more varied pattern of deployment possibilities to meet international challenges.
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On September 28 a feature called “BMD fleet plans Europe defense mission” appeared in the Navy Times which reported that “Ballistic-missile defense warships have become the keystone in a new national strategy….Rather than field sensors and missiles on the ground in Poland and the Czech Republic, the U.S. will first maintain a presence of at least two or three Aegis BMD ships in the waters around Europe, starting in 2011.”
This development is in keeping with U.S Pentagon chief Robert Gates’ presentation of September 17 in which, confirming President Obama’s announcement to replace and supplement his predecessor’s project of placing ten ground-based interceptor missiles in Poland and a complementary radar installation in the Czech Republic, he laid out a three-step strategy to enhance (his word) U.S. missile shield plans in Europe.
“These capabilities offer a variety of options to detect, track and shoot down enemy missiles. This allows us to deploy a distributive sensor network rather than a single fixed site, like the kind slated for the Czech Republic, enabling greater survivability and adaptability.”
That is, as Russian officials have over the past two years openly stated that the stationary missile radar facility intended for the Czech Republic and silo-based missiles planned for Poland would be targeted by their own missiles if the U.S. went ahead with the deployments, mobile and rapidly deployable alternatives would have, in Gates’ terms, “greater survivability and adaptability.”
Land-based facilities are easy to monitor and, if the suspicion arose that they would be part of an imminent first strike attack, neutralize.
Sea-based, air-based and spaced-based surveillance and missile deployments would be harder – if not impossible – to track and to take out…
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