President Trump Unveils The Pentagon's Missile Defense Review



Daily Mail: Trump plans massive missile defense push saying U.S. will 'detect and destroy any missile launched anywhere, any time, any place' in biggest push since Reagan's Star Wars


 * Trump spoke at the Pentagon to unveil new a missile-defense strategy in a deliberate echo of Ronald Reagan's 1983 launch of 'Star Wars' initiative
 * Trump's Missile Defense Review, the first compiled since 2010, was released during visit to the Pentagon
 * Says the Pentagon must expand defense technologies in space to more quickly detect, track and destroy incoming missiles
 * U.S. is considering putting a layer of sensors in space to more quickly detect enemy missiles when they are launched
 * Administration also plans to study the idea of basing interceptors in space, so the U.S. can strike incoming enemy missiles during the first minutes of flight
 * Existing threats from North Korea and Iran prompted changes, along with new advanced weapon systems being developed by Russia and China
 * New strategy declares North Korea an 'extraordinary threat' just seven months after the president said Pyongyang posed no danger to the U.S.
 * Trump also pledged to back NATO, days after a news report suggested he has often spoke about pulling America out of the alliance

Declaring that space is the new warfighting domain, President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed the U.S. will develop an unrivaled missile defense system to protect against advanced hypersonic and cruise missile threats from competitors and adversaries.

Trump said in a Pentagon speech that the U.S. will do what it takes 'to ensure that we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the United States anywhere, any time, any place.'

The outlook had echos of President Ronald Reagan's famed Strategic Defense Initiative, which critics derided as 'Star Wars.'

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