The United States needs to focus missile-defense dollars on technologies that can help it compete with other nations using relatively inexpensive rockets, not on a new East Coast missile defense site, according to the chief of U.S. Northern Command. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon Tuesday, NORTHCOM chief Adm. Bill Gortney said when it comes to ballistic missile defense, the United States is on the wrong side of the cost curve, "shooting down not-very-expensive rockets with very expensive rockets." "If...
