President Donald Trump’s next-gen defense shield tackles a decades-old issue of US territorial defense, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Retired Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt says.
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00:00This is an old, old issue that has come about for years and years.
00:05I remember before I went into the military in 1972, that the ABM Treaty, the Anti-Ballistic
00:13Missile Treaty, was signed between the United States and Russia.
00:17Ten years later, you had President Reagan signing the ABM Treaty with Russia.
00:22This is a long process of treaties between the United States and its adversaries, in
00:30terms of either reducing or defending against the threat of nuclear weapons invading each
00:35other's homelands.