China and Russia are preparing to destroy them.
Here s What You Need to Remember: “What systems will we use that we are not using today, as we look to the future to be light, lean and agile. There will not be enough Patriot and THAAD to go around. How do you buy down the risk and get ahead of the cost curve?” Brown asked.
The Pentagon is looking across the services to figure out ways to better defend forward-positioned bases, assets and forces from a growing sphere of highly sophisticated, long-range enemy attack threats.
Many small bases, facilities, troop locations and even major platforms such as stealth airplanes are positioned in high-risk areas potentially vulnerable to enemy attacks, particularly in light of the fact that adversaries such as Russia and China now possess a large arsenal of long-range precision attack weaponry able to hold U.S. targets at risk.