Missile defence

Abstract

Though the US has cancelled the Eastern European ‘Third Site’ missile defence programme, it has done so in favour of a staged improvement of sea-based defences. This represents a sizeable investment in missile defence. By contrast, European states, including the UK, have failed to invest. Britain must therefore, in the coming defence review, decide how to apply increasingly limited resources to the problems inherent to its reliance on American support. © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.