This is a little bit scary, in an old fashioned cold war sense. General In Charge Of U.S. Northern Command: U.S. Homeland 'No Longer A Sanctuary':
O’Shaughnessy continued, “We have to think about our defense in different ways than we have in the past. That means we need to fundamentally re-think when we say homeland defense how we’re going to do that against a peer competitor …
One threat to the U.S. comes from Russia, whose hypersonic glide missiles allegedly have the capability to fly an arced trajectory high into the atmosphere on an intercontinental ballistic missile, evading missile defense systems.
Air Force Chief of Staff General Dave Goldfein told Military Times, “It’s probably dangerous for us to think we can physically be a sanctuary when we’re in competition below a level of armed conflict, and we have a couple of new domains that our adversaries are operating in: cyber and space. … Our competitors have studied the way we fight and the way we operate and are investing in and training in ways to take those advantages away from us.”
Hopefully, the defense department will put that $716 billion to good use.
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3:44 PM 9/5/2018
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