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MDAA Alert:
Synergy
May 1, 2020

John Rood (left) and Riki Ellison (right) at MDAA's Virtual CRT at MDAA's Office
in Alexandria, VA on April 30, 2020.
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Dear Members and Friends,
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MDAA's first virtual Congressional Roundtable was held yesterday, reflecting on
the 2019 Missile Defense Review (MDR) and its outlook for the future. Click here
for both video and [[link removed]]
transcripts of the event [[link removed]].
The format of our discussion was focused on four segments - intent and origin of
the 2019 MDR from the National Defense Strategy (NDS), strategic operationalization
of the 2019 MDR, tactical operationalization of the 2019 MDR around the Combatant
Commands (COCOMS) Area of Responsibilities (AORs), and allied partnerships with
the 2019 MDR.
"So why was the Missile Defense Review done? Because of the missile threat and the
prominence of it in the international security environment. But in addition to that,
you do see it's important to us in dealing with great power competition to return
and deepen our thinking on things like what does it take to practice effective deterrence
in today's world? Missile defense are core to that [...] part of what deters an
adversary from launching a missile at you in the first place is that you have an
effective defense and you could defend against it" - John Rood, former Under Secretary
of Defense for Policy, at MDAA's Virtual CRT on April 30, 2020.
"In some areas where the United States has made security commitments to our allies,
having the means to provide that kind of defense. The ability also where you see
countries like Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, trying to deter us from being
willing to come to the aid of our allies, or to push us out of what they believe
are their regions, through anti-access area denial. Missile defenses make that
not feasible when they are effective. Then you also have the need to hedge against
uncertainties. We always talk about capability, the capability that potential adversaries
possess, but there's also their intentions. Intentions can change very rapidly.
The time period required to develop these systems is measured in many years, so
therefore having the ability to hedge against that is important." - John Rood, former
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, at MDAA's Virtual CRT on April 30, 2020.
"Then I think the other role that missile defenses play is they're very stabilizing.
One of the things that I've gotten a little concerned about in recent years is you've
seen them slide back, some people talking about the need to preserve strategic stability
as an overriding goal and worrying that defenses are somehow provocative. Being
able to defend yourself might undermine stability. I think the opposite is very
clearly true. The Missile Defense Review States that explicitly. Missile defenses
have proven to be stabilizing." - John Rood, former Under Secretary of Defense for
Policy, at MDAA's Virtual CRT on April 30, 2020.
"I think we to give greater priority to defense. Offensive hypersonic capabilities
are very attractive. I support that very much. And I think there are lots of good
reasons and we should be the world leader in that area. So it's not to detract from
offenses, but defenses need to be a part of this, and this is going to be a very
challenging area. For those that might throw up their hands and say this is impossible,
I don't agree with that. So many things that were seen to be impossible, we just
have knocked those down year after year after year in every domain and military
area to include missile defense. And so we have to begin with the ability to track
it, and here, going to space makes all the sense in the world to me to have the
high ground. And we have to have a distributed architecture, survival architecture,
resilient architecture to do that, that ideally we can upgrade rapidly because this
is not going to be static. But we've got to get started on that." - John Rood, former
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, at MDAA's Virtual CRT on April 30, 2020.
The importance of the NDS as the overarching strategy was made clearly. Under that
umbrella, the 2019 MDR was discussed in depth, with the point clearly being made
that defense must coexist with offense; a holistic strategy formulation needs to
take both into consideration.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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