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Army’s Incoming 2040 Air And Missile Defense Strategy Due Within Months

Monday, August 11th, 2025

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Army’s Incoming 2040 Air And Missile Defense Strategy Due Within Months

A battery assigned to 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment, display their patriot radar and antenna mast group during table gunnery training exercise on Kadena Air Base in Japan, Oct. 19, 2017. (U.S. Army Photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez)

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The head of the Army’s Air and Missile Defense Command last week confirmed the service expects to release the next air and missile defense strategy for 2040 in about three months. “We're at the point now where, within the next three months, we will release the strategy 2040 out to the force. We've gone through all of the staffing. We're at the final general officer level staffing, and at my level. So we feel very comfortable in…

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