Missile Defense System's A Dud

The Prime Minister and President of Poland, twin brothers Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczynski respectively, appear to favor placing a U.S. anti-missile facility in Poland. The $9 billion dollar per year global anti-missile system is being designed to shoot down ballistic missiles carrying nuclear, bacteriological or chemical warheads. The origin of these incoming missiles are hypothetical regimes, described by Washington as "rogue". Russia is less than enthusiastic.BMD Focus: Why Russia fears BMD

This project is fatally flawed, because: 1. The Alaska-based project bypassed normal military oversight. 2. The defense system has trouble differentiating between incoming missiles and satellites or chunks of ice. 3. The technology on incoming missiles is far simpler than that of the defense system which means it is far easier for the incoming missiles to avoid the missile defense. 4. The defense system bypassed traditional implementation protocol with a build-it-and-they-will-come attitude. In other words it fails trial tests, but this administration continues to move the project along anyway.

The government turned the ill-fated defense system into a computer game and gave it to our Senators and Representatives in the hopes that the game would win approval for the mega-billion dollar project. The only difference between the game and the real system is that the game actually works. In other words, it is an outrageously expensive dud.

G. C. Christie is an international complex systems problem-solver. Christie has consulted with U.S.-based defense systems.