Rep. Wilson Concerned New Euro Missile Defense Plan Will Leave Pacific Vulnerable

By Pat Host / October 16, 2009 at 5:00 AM
A Republican Congressman is questioning the Obama administration's new European missile defense plan that uses Navy ships as the main line of defense, raising the prospect that it would leave the Pacific theater vulnerable. In an Oct. 8 letter to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, wrote he is concerned about how the redeployment of sea-based missile defense systems -- specifically Navy Aegis ships -- from...

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