Is U.S. Missile Defense Strategy Flawed?

Report Blasts Military’s Dreams of Destroying Missiles at Launch -- Danger Room

For years, the Pentagon has tried to find a means to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles that could one day be launched from North Korea and Iran. That’s meant developing an expensive slew of interceptors to shoot down missiles mid-course — and, more ambitiously, during the “boost phase,” right after launch when the missile’s rocket engine is still firing. But a new report funded by the U.S. military’s missile-defense bureau says the military’s efforts to develop boost-phase interceptors are doomed to fail.

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More News On The U.S. Missile Defense Strategy

U.S. Missile Defense Strategy Is Flawed, Expert Panel Finds -- New York Times
Report criticizes U.S. missile-defense system -- USA Today
US vulnerable to long-range missile attack: report -- AFP
U.S. Missile-Defense System Needs Upgrade, Council Says -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Federal Study Finds Missile-Defense Flaws -- Wall Street Journal
Study Shoots Down Current U.S. Missile Defense Strategy as Costly, Impractical -- National Defense
Report recommends cost-effective plan to strengthen US defense against ballistic missile attacks -- Phys.org
Missile defence needs networking -- Nature
National Research Council Report Calls for Expanding Ground-Based Missile Defense, but Concedes System Can Be Fooled by Decoys -- Union Of Concern Scientist