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Anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic: mass is said


(BRUSSELS2) The Obama administration seems to want to draw a final line on the installation of an anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. This installation desired by the Bush administration no longer seems to be in the odor of sanctity in Washington. It must be said that the latest information was not wildly optimistic for the realization of this shield (read here). This time, even if no decision has yet been made definitively, the mass seems to be said.

Alternative solutions (mobile, boats, Israel, Turkey, Balkans). The American government is already preparing alternative solutions, underlines a lobbyist, Riki Ellisson, president of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, in a searched article from Gazeta Wyborcza. At a recent conference where the Pentagon outlined its future plans, the generals never mentioned the original plan for Poland and the Czech Republic. But other possibilities are mentioned: in particular the installation of a mobile interceptor for missile launchers (a solution proposed by the powerful American manufacturer Boeing...), or even installation on boats - a solution which has the merit of able to be adapted at all times - or else the construction of bases in countries more exposed (to the Iranian threat or other). We are talking about Israel, Turkey or the Balkans.

The reason for this development: not to rush Russia. The Obama administration realized that " many global problems can be easily solved together with Moscow says Ellison. Particularly in terms of disarmament, a priority for the Democrats. And our Polish friends embroider on this theme. It now remains to obtain serious compensation from Moscow for what constitutes, despite everything, a serious withdrawal and a real change in American defense doctrine. But there are also other "good"
reasons for this development: first of all, the cost of the fixed anti-missile shield project and then the serious doubts of Obama administration experts about its real operational capacity.

We could also add to this list: the economic crisis (a formidable accelerator of reality) and the realization that the future risk is rapidly evolving (yesterday Libya, today the "almost" best friend of the West, in this moment, Iran, tomorrow who? and where?) In this case indeed a "mobile", "movable" solution seems finely intelligent...
(read the article).

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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