U.S. Recent Plans in National Air Defense: The East Asia Dimension

... Pentagon’s desire to create a broad regional missile defense infrastructure in Asia Pacific to meet the country’s unique nuclear deterrence needs [ 5 ]. Notably, no country of East Asia, in whole or in part, has ever expressed its intentions to unprovokedly ... ... funding should be significantly increased, and certain measures to improve the survivability of the SNF should be taken. Is air defense needed in East Asia? The U.S. global missile defense architecture is gradually built around nodal components, some ...