Evolutionary sea-based defenses, an early version of which conducted a successful intercept of a short-range ballistic missile two months ago, meet both of these tests.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: An Effective Antimissile Strategy

Substantial Foreign Interest in Defenses: It is these threats, and the advantages of space-based defenses to ameliorate them, that have caught the attention of the Western European Union, whose member countries are already exposed to short- as well as longer-range ballistic missile threats.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

In the past week, Pakistan has test-fired two ballistic missiles and India responded by test-firing a new short-range air-defence missile.

ECONOMIST: After the vote