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MDAA Alert:
Transcript
September 19, 2019
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, John Rood, and Riki Ellison at MDAA's Congressional
Roundtable at the Capitol Building on September 17, 2019.
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Dear Members and Friends,
Yesterday, we asked the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, John Rood, to provide
a status update on each of the six missile defense policy initiatives stated by
President Donald Trump on January 17, 2019 at the release of the MDR. Here is the
transcript of Under Secretary Rood's update [[link removed]]
on the progress of the President's missile defense initiatives.

* "First, we will prioritize the defense of the American people above all else."
* "Second, we will focus on developing new technology, not just investing more money
into existing systems."
* "Third, we will protect the American people from all types [ballistic, cruise,
and hypersonic] of missile attacks."
* "Fourth, we will recognize that space is a new warfighting domain, with the Space
Force leading the way."
* "Fifth, we will remove bureaucratic obstacles to dramatically speed up the acquisition
and deployment of the new technology."
* "And sixth, we will insist on fair burden sharing with our allies."
- President Donald Trump at the release of 2019 Missile Defense Review.

Under Secretary John Rood presented an overall assessment of the current status
of missile defense and an MDR update that is included in his opening remarks in
the transcript.

We're going to focus on well missile defense is noteworthy, so this year you saw
the president request in his budget request 12 billion dollars for missile defense,
that included $9.4 billion for the Missile Defense Agency and about $2.5 billion
for the US Army and we produced a National Defense Strategy that talked about the
reemergence of strategic competition amongst the great powers and talked about the
great concern that we have about China's growing ambitions coupled with a desire
to challenge the international order and the international rules-based order in
a way that poses a threat not only to the United States but to our partners and
those that have worked so hard to develop that system. We also see Russia conducting
a range of destabilizing activities around the world, a malign influence, things
such as interfering in the elections of other parties, political assassinations
of opponents using chemical weapons, violation of international arms control agreements
and the like. So, we see China and Russia promoting an authoritarian model that
challenges freedom that challenges this international rules-based order. We've also
seen as Riki talked about Iran with the largest ballistic missile force in the Middle
East, they continue to modernize and expand their arsenal. We also see North Korea
continuing their missile program of pace including some of the recent launches of
shorter-range systems. So, the Missile Defense Review said in order to address
this evolving challenge to our security we needed a comprehensive approach and the
roles for missile defense are things like the importance of protecting our homeland
our forces and our friends and allies that we needed to diminish the value of coercive
capabilities, one of the things that we see our adversaries or potential adversaries
developing missiles for is in order to exercise a coercive element to their policy.
- John Rood, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, on September 17, 2019 at MDAA's
Congressional Roundtable.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit
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for more information.
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