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Analyst Says Gates Errs In Killing KEI

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Monday, May 18th, 2009

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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has uttered multiple erroneous statements about the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) missile defense system that he wants to abolish, a noted military analyst said. Gates is provably wrong in many of his assertions about KEI, according to Daniel Goure of the Lexington Institute, a think tank near the Pentagon focusing on defense and other issues. On the one hand, Goure praised Gates for tackling a difficult task, taking on entrenched interests in the Pentagon and…

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