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77; and Simon Worden, “Technology and Theater Missile Defense,” in American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Theater Missile Defense: Systems
and Issues—1993 (Washington, D.C.: AIAA, 1993), 94.
30. BMDO, “Fact Sheet: Navy Theater Wide Ballistic Missile Defense,”
1–2; Wade Boese, “Navy Theater Missile Defense Test Successful,” Arms Control
Today, March 2002, 29; Goodman, “Layered Protection”; Anthony Sommer,
“Defense Missile Test Will Be Held Off Kauai,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 11 July
2000; and Robert Suro, “Missile Defense is Still Just A Pie in the Sky,”
Washington Post, 12 February 2001.
31. The Aegis ships already have cost the country $50 billion. See Coyle,
“Rhetoric or Reality?”; Kim Holmes and Baker Spring, “Missile Defense Compass,”
Washington Times, 14 July 2000; Murray Hiebert, “Flying High on
Blind Faith,” Far Eastern Economic Review, 22 February 2001; and Lindsay
and O’Hanlon, Defending America, 102–3.
32. Colin Clark and Robert Holzer, “U.S., Allies Move on Maritime TMD
Partnership Plan,” Defense News, 29 November 1999, 1; and Sandra Erwin,
“U.S. Ponders Sea-Based Missile Defense,” National Defense, October 1999, 25.
33. “Let President Defer Missile Deployment,” Minneapolis Star Tribune,
11 July 2000; and Richard Newman, “Shooting from the Ship,” U.S. News
and World Report, 3 July 2000.
34. This reminds historically minded individuals of the interwar British
10-year rule that justified minimal defense budgets. This policy left the
British unprepared for World War II, perhaps encouraging German aggression,
and certainly leading to military setbacks early in the war.
35. Quoted in Clarence Robinson, “Missile Technology Access Emboldens
Rogue Nations,” Signal, April 1999; and James Hackett, “CIA Candor on
Missile Threat,” Washington Times, 20 September 1999, 19.
36. Lindsay and O’Hanlon, Defending America, 198, appendix C, “Excerpts
from the 1998 Rumsfeld Commission Report.”
37. Robinson, “Missile Technology.”
38. Ibid. The report had considerable credibility due to its unanimous
findings and its impressive authors. See Lindsay and O’Hanlon, Defending
America, 197n.
39. Quoted in “Missile Controversies,” Air Force Magazine, January
1999, 50.
40. “Missile Controversies,” 50.
41. Specifically, the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, “We project
that during the next 15 years the United States most likely will face ICBM
threats from Russia, China, and North Korea, probably from Iran, and possibly
from Iraq.” See Lindsay and O’Hanlon, Defending America, 218, appendix
D, “Excerpts from the 1999 National Intelligence Estimate”; John
Donnelly, “Iran Has Makings of North Korea’s Taepo Dong,” Defense Week,
24 May 1999, 1; Jim Lea, “Report: N. Korea Using Japanese Technology for
Developing Missiles,” Pacific Stars and Stripes, 20 February 1999, 3; Jim
Lea, “ROK Won’t Join Missile Program,” Pacific Stars and Stripes, 5 May
1999, 3; Robinson, “Missile Technology”; and Steven Myers and Eric Schmitt,
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