Most of the attacks on the northern part of Israel come from the short-range missiles.
It remains unconfirmed what type of short-range missiles were fired over the weekend.
Mr. HERZOG: The issue is the following: Hezbollah longer-range missiles and short-range missiles.
Israel's Iron Dome can protect against short-range missiles, and recently upgraded Arrow systems are designed to thwart advanced medium-range missiles.
It remains unconfirmed what type of short-range missiles were fired.
The Israeli military said an Iron Dome anti-rocket battery - designed to intercept short-range missiles - which was positioned near Eilat earlier this month was not deployed in the latest attack.
Mr Olmert's fatal error was to believe his chief of staff, a former air-force commander, who assured him that Hizbullah's thousands of short-range missiles could be dealt with in the same way.
Cohen said the decision Sunday to send U.S. helicopter gunships and short-range missiles to the region is an escalation of the existing allied air campaign, not a move toward putting troops into the field.
Gaffney, Jr. observed in a column distributed by National Review Online on Monday, the urgency with which such deployments must be undertaken has grown as awareness spreads of a heretofore under-appreciated danger: the threat of short-range missiles launched from ships off the U.S. coasts.
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These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
Reinforcing existing defences against possible long-range Iranian missiles is seen as a problem for the future, given that America now says the Iranians are working more on short- and medium-range missiles than on long-range ones.
Cartwright pointed to proliferation of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles, noting that the country must be able to discourage adversaries from using them.
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Similarly, the Alaska site would do nothing to alleviate the grave danger American forces overseas presently face from short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
"At the NATO summit in April, we adopted a resolution focusing on building a defense system against real, existing threats, i.e. short-range and medium-range missiles, " Fischer said.
The performance of critical subsystems and other lessons learned during its tests -- even those that prove to be less than fully successful -- contribute significantly to the maturing of urgently systems that can defend against short-, medium- and long-range missiles.
Analysts say the Syrian government maintains up to 400 of the short- and medium-range Russian-developed Scud missiles.
Both sides have short and medium-range ballistic missiles which could deliver nuclear warheads.
In particular, Gershwin noted the possibility of short-cuts that might permit developing countries to acquire long-range missiles far more quickly than if they were obliged to develop them indigenously.
In the past week, Pakistan has test-fired two ballistic missiles and India responded by test-firing a new short-range air-defence missile.
Its 1996 manifesto called for producing and deploying missiles under development in India, the short-range Prithvi and intermediate-range Agni.
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