The Pentagon is reportedly working on an expanded US missile defense policy that addresses specific regional threats from Russia and China in Europe and Asia.
US military newspaper Stars and Stripes says the new policy marks a shift from a prior strategy that focused nearly exclusively on rogue nations such as North Korea and Iran.
“The new policy will still call for bolstered technology against rogue states, with a particular focus on weapons to intercept North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s missiles. But people familiar with the review say it will also mention the need to consider missile threats from Russia and China, a change from previous doctrine,” Stars and Stripes said.
The new policy document is still in draft form and it could reportedly be changed before its tentative release date in late March.
Word of the Pentagon effort follows a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in which he claimed that Moscow has a new intercontinental ballistic missile that can dodge Western anti-missile systems.
Anti-missile focus on Europe, Asia
The newspaper noted that “Russia’s thousands of missiles easily could overwhelm existing US missile defenses in the event of a full-scale war.” Because of this, the US is said to rely on its own vast nuclear arsenal to deter attacks from potential foes like Russia and China.
“As a result, the Pentagon isn’t pursuing a shield against all missile threats from Russia and China. American defense planners abandoned such lofty goals after the Soviet Union’s collapse,” Stars and Stripes said. “Rather, according to one US official, the policy will more discretely look at ways the United States can better deal with burgeoning missile threats from Russia and China in regional theaters such as Europe and Asia, where the two countries’ systems have alarmed the American military.”
There can be no end to arms conflict, until the human race realises that we are all interdependent on one another and will achieve our self worth faster in the light of love for one another. Love will turn our weapons to implements for agriculture. This is what the US and Russia need to know as they strive to balance the use of force.
Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction only shortens the life in this planet. It will not discriminate whether your an American, Russian or Chinese. All are subject to be killed.
the pronouncements of putin were foolhardy and could trigger an arms race. the US will certainly never allow national defense to be compromised much more threatened. we are back to the cold war, fellows.
To survive is our goal. But in aftermath you’ll wish you did earlier
All of these powerful nation its aimed to annihilate the whole human race…
Wake up Asia Time staff!!
ALL US missile defense systems have been designed with Russia (incl. former USSR) and China in mind from the get-go!!!
I guess its only a matter of time. I hope I die in the first strike, to survive is to suffer a long, slow and agonizing death. They just wont stop until we exterminate our race.