Publication

Oct 2012

Following successful tests on its interim missile defense capability in May 2012, NATO seems on track to establishing an operational missile defense system. Participants at the SDA roundtable focused on the following questions: What level of protection will this offer the alliance? How will NATO’s missile defense plans adapt to the alliance’s new doctrine of ’smart defense’? Will Europe continue to freeload on the back of US missile defense technology, or will it invest in its own defense industries? Will NATO’s missile defense plans be cut back by reductions in European defense budgets?

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Author David Koczij
Series SDA Reports
Publisher Security Europe - Friends of Europe
Copyright © 2012 Security Defence Agenda (SDA)
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