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Report: President Trump to Sign Executive Order Launching US Iron Dome"Like Israel's highly effective system of the same name, President Trump's Iron Dome will provide an impenetrable defense for the American people that will bring peace through strength." -Victoria Coates, vice president of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation
An expert in national security—and in the Iron Dome, in particular—praised Trump's action as the fulfillment of President Ronald Reagan's strategic defense plan. According to a news release provided early to The Daily Signal, Trump's executive order "directs the implementation of a next generation missile defense shield for the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next generation aerial attacks." The order "accelerates the development and deployment of Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor Layers, proliferated space-based interceptors, a Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, capabilities to defeat salvoes prior to launch, non-kinetic missile defense capabilities, and underlayer and terminal-phase intercept capabilities." The order directs a review of America's current missile defense posture "to defend United States troops deployed abroad" and cooperation with US partners and allies on missile defense technology. The White House characterized "the threat of attack by ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles" as "a catastrophic threat," warning that the threat has increased over the past 40 years. "Notwithstanding this increasing threat, United States homeland missile defense policy has been limited to staying ahead of rogue nation threats and accidental or unauthorized missile launches," the document states. The White House framed the move as Trump's fulfilling a recent promise. "I will direct our military to begin construction of the great Iron Dome missile defense shield, which will be made all in the USA," Trump pledged at a December rally in Phoenix... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Continue reading Here. 
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