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Business/Financial

Don’t Worry About Missile Defense Cuts Because They Don’t ‘Gut’ BMD Programs, Analyst Argues

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Monday, June 15th, 2009

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Proponents of a dependable U.S. missile defense system of systems shouldn't worry about the $1.2 billion of cuts to missile defense programs that President Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates have sent to Congress, a military analyst argues. Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow with the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, D.C., presented his argument in The Examiner, a free Washington tabloid paper. He concedes that underfunding missile defense would be a "serious problem," because the threat from ballistic and…

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