Gates Reorienting Missile Defense Programs

By Cole Harvey

The U.S. missile defense program would be refocused and its overall spending would decline under the Obama administration’s fiscal year 2010 budget request, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said April 6. At a press conference, Gates said he intends to reorganize the program around short-range missile defense and efforts to counter “rogue” states.

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