Obama's Funding Cuts to blame for 3rd Failure of U.S. Missile Defense Test

[JakeStarkey]

No, it has not.

That is a claim without any objective evidence.

 

[pwjohn]

Obama’s Devastating Cuts in Missile Defense
How the administration has made us more vulnerable to the aggression of North Korea and other rogues states.
March 23, 2016
Joseph Klein

The Ballistic Missile Defense System is a key part of our nation’s overall missile defense program. It is described by the Department of Defense as “an integrated, ‘layered’ architecture that provides multiple opportunities to destroy missiles and their warheads before they can reach their targets.” The system is “designed to counter ballistic missiles of all ranges—short, medium, intermediate and long.” It consists of three basic components – space, ground and sea-based sensors and radars, and ground and sea-based interceptor missiles. The system relies on a sophisticated communications network “with the needed links between the sensors and interceptor missiles.”

Seven years before winning the White House, Barack Obama told a Chicago TV station that "I don't agree with a missile defense system." True to his word, the Obama administration has set about weakening key elements of the multi-layered ballistic Missile Defense System. Our enemies including Russia, Iran and North Korea could not be happier.

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General David L. Mann, USA, Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, United States Strategic Command, told the House Armed Services Committee two years ago that we have only “a limited defense against threats emanating from North Korea and Iran.” When asked to explain, he said, “Given their current capability, it does provide the protection. But we all know that these countries are continuing to increase their arsenal and their technology. And down the road, they might reach a point in terms of numbers, just the numbers of missiles that they could employ that it could overwhelm the system.”

That warning is now two years old. The Obama administration has left our country in a position where time is not on our side.

Obama’s Devastating Cuts in Missile Defense

That poor "General' Bozo the Clown, is gonna have to shorten his enemies list by one. Iran.

 

[alang1216]

It is Congress that decides the budget, not the Executive branch. They fund plenty of programs that Obama and the military would prefer not to have. If you're looking for a culprit look there.

We've never had an effective ballistic missile defense and managed to survive a cold war. MAD worked with the USSR and will likely continue to work with any state capable of fielding an intercontinental missile.