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MDAA Alert:
Early Warning is Not Enough
March 13, 2020

A C-RAM during nighttime testing at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma on January 24, 2020. (Photo:
DVIDS - photo by SGT Amanda Hunt)
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Dear Members and Friends,
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On Wednesday, two Americans and a British troop were killed and 14 others were injured
when 30 [[link removed]]
Katyusha rockets were launched [[link removed]]
by Iranian backed Shia militias at the Taji Air Base in Iraq.
"But let me be clear, the United States will not tolerate attacks against our people,
our interests or our allies. All options are on the table as we work with our partners
to bring the perpetrators to justice and maintain deterrence. As we have demonstrated
in recent months, we will take any action necessary to protect our forces in Iraq
and the region." - Secretary Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense, at a media briefing
at the Pentagon on March 12, 2020.
Forward deployed U.S. Soldiers have been injured and killed because of a lack of
capacity of operational and deployed U.S. missile defense interceptor systems.
There is not enough of U.S. Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar (C-RAM) [[link removed]]
batteries, which are already integrated, operationally deployed, and effective on
the bases that they are deployed in the Middle East to defeat these rocket and missile
threats. U.S. early warning missile sensors, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
(ISR) capabilities, and command & control (C2) are rightfully deployed and prolific
throughout the Middle East where U.S. forces are deployed and have saved thousands
of American lives. There is no question that the missile threat to the lives of
our forward based troops and allies is real, expanding and continuing to be the
weapon of choice for rogue nations and their proxies to kill. Early warning, ISR,
and C2 is not enough to defend American lives deployed in the Middle East.
"So a serious attack; it was a significant attack and it resulted in the death and
wounding of American soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, sort of thing." - General
Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a media briefing at the Pentagon
on March 12, 2020.
"And on the first question, we get -- we have alert systems. You know this, you've
been on all the bases, you have alert systems. Incoming missiles, alarms go off.
So that's an immediate -- so that is there. But on that base, with these type of
rockets, no, they were not intercepted. It's not a function of failure, there's
not a system there to defend against those type of rockets." - General Mark Milley,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a media briefing at the Pentagon on March
12, 2020.
The C-RAM, a 360 degree high speed gun was originally designed, developed, and deployed
for U.S. Navy ships for the last layer of defense for rockets and anti-ship missiles.
The United States Army, driven by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, leveraged that
capability with the U.S. Navy and the National Guard to have a land-based capability
that has been operationally deployed and very effective over the past two decades
in Iraq and Afghanistan with over 2,000 intercepts. There is a limited number of
these systems and the U.S. needs significantly more air and missile defense system
capacity, such as additional C-RAM systems, to fulfill the high demand and better
defend our forward deployed troops. The C-RAM is a great classic business model
of leveraging existing capabilities from other services to achieve the mission objective.
We don't need to wait for the perfect solution.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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is to make the world safer by advocating for the development and deployment of missile
defense systems to defend the United States and its allies against missile threats.
We are a membership-funded organization that does not advocate on behalf of any
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only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and
mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit
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