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MDAA Alert:
Moving Forward
January 24, 2020

A C-RAM defense system is test fired on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan on January
13, 2018.
(Photo: U.S. Air Force by Staff Sergeant Sean Martin)
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Dear Members and Friends,
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The United States is moving forward to best secure its military forces in operating
bases around the world from the threats that are delivered through the air above
and around these bases. The multitude and variety of threats delivered through
the air range from massive and complex to small and simple and proliferation of
these systems has accelerated as use throughout the world is highlighted in the
Middle East today. It is far cheaper and of magnitudes more cost efficient to develop,
produce, deploy and fight with offensive systems than to produce and deploy defensive
systems to negate these offensive systems today.
These cost curve air threats are put in five categories -
Group 1 - Micro/Mini UAS
Group 2 - Small Tactical
Group 3 - Tactical
Group 4 - Persistent
Group 5 - Penetrating
Each of the United States four military services have each developed, tested, produced,
and deployed their own specific systems that use kinetic, non-kinetic, and electromagnetic
methods to defeat these common sets of threats through the air to include sensors,
interceptors/effectors and command & control.
Last week the United States announced a new Joint Flag position [[link removed]]
given to the Army to oversee the doctrine, the development, the testing, the training,
and the equipping for Group 1-3 air threats for all of the military services and
their existing weapon systems that are being used today and future weapon systems.
The Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition
and Sustainment, Ellen Lord, along with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General Mark Milley, made the decision to create a new joint command that would
be more cost efficient, more speed to get to the warfighters and technically more
efficient to man and operate these systems protecting U.S. bases around the world.
Major General Sean Gainey, the Deputy Director for Force Protection and Director
for Joint Requirements Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
Defense, has been placed in command of this new position. A pathfinder for what
is to come for Group 4-5 in the near future, a cross service, cross domain Center
of Excellence and school house to train, equip, operate, and provide doctrine to
best fight with these existing and new systems coming forward of which directed
energy and electromagnetic weapon systems show great promise of cost efficiency
and effectiveness to inverse the current cost-curve of expensive defensive effectors
to the cheaper offensive effectors.
There is inefficiency of cost and effectiveness today by the Navy, the Army, the
Air Force, the Marines and soon to be the Space Force of all having primary separate
weapon systems to integrate, early warn, track, and intercept with separate command
and control systems. With an extremely high demand of having complete layered missile
defense systems that encompass group 1-5 in United States operating military bases
around the world, the United States has to move fast toward a united command for
group 4 and group 5 as they are doing today for groups 1-3.
No more urgent for this need is U.S. military personnel stationed in Iraq, as was
reported this week that the Department of Defense will 'likely' [[link removed]]
send Patriot missile defense batteries, from a very limited supply, to Iraq to provide
defense against Iranian missiles for U.S. military personnel deployed in the country.
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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.
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