The Pentagon has a new missile defense assignment: craft a comprehensive strategy for developing, acquiring and operationally establishing an integrated air and missile defense architecture for select locations across U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, a 100-million-square-mile region that constitutes more than 50% of the earth's surface. The Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act includes a statutory provision requiring the formulation of an integrated missile defense plan for the largest of the United States’ unified combatant commands and annual reports to Congress...