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Hawkish Lawmakers Applaud Missile Defense Expansion Efforts

Julie Samuel

Monday, March 18th, 2013

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Hawkish lawmakers applauded the Pentagon’s announcement that it will boost missile-defense efforts--including burying more interceptors in Alaska--in response to Iran and North Korea’s work to develop long-range missiles. Yet Republicans lamented the costs incurred from a previous scaling-back of such homeland-defense efforts, and a senior senator called for the Pentagon to accelerate plans for a third U.S. interceptor facility. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on March 15 that the Pentagon is planning to deploy 14 more Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs) at…

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