{"id":15038,"date":"2009-09-18T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times-background_on_europe_missile_shield_and_obamas_decision_to_scrap_\/"},"modified":"2009-09-18T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T14:45:38","slug":"la_times-background_on_europe_missile_shield_and_obamas_decision_to_scrap_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15038","title":{"rendered":"LA Times&#8211;Background on Europe missile shield and Obama&#39;s decision to scrap it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Obama change the plan?<\/p>\n<p>In his announcement, the president gave two reasons for the change in policy:<\/p>\n<p>First, the latest intelligence indicates that Iran is concentrating on short- and medium-range missiles rather than long-range missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Second, technological advances in land- and sea-based interceptors and sensors mean they can now be more effective in defending Europe. Obama also said the new approach, using advanced versions of the SM-3 ship-based missile being developed for use by the U.S. Navy, will be more cost-effective and offer the military more flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>For the next two years, the United States will deploy the sea-based Aegis weapon system, the SM-3 interceptor and sensors such as the Army Navy\/Transportable Radar Surveillance system to monitor threats, the White House said. More advanced systems will come later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-missiles-q-a18-2009sep18,0,7732231.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Obama change the plan? In his announcement, the president gave two reasons for the change in policy: First, the latest intelligence indicates that Iran is concentrating on short- and medium-range missiles rather than long-range missiles. Second, technological advances<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15038\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,143,200,144,616,151,667,666,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-president-george-bush","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}