Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff explains why the executive order to create a space-based defense shield would ...

Space-based interceptors and "particle beams" are part of a new multi-billion-dollar Trump order to build a new U.S. missile ...

Trump's push follows in the footsteps of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a scrapped program popularly called "Star ...

President Donald J. Trump’s January 27, 2025, Executive Order to build an Iron Dome for America is a welcome call for an ...

Israel’s missile defense system is effective in close quarters. That model won’t help the U.S.

Such defense systems are extremely costly” with “their effectiveness often being questionable,” one expert said.

As Secretary Hegseth takes the reins of the Pentagon, he said one of his priorities would be an effort to create an “iron dome” missile defense system to protect the United States, like the one ...

The work announced by Donald Trump on the "Iron Dome for America" is more than just a plan to develop another anti-ballistic system. It's a revival of the "Star Wars" concept with which President ...

The US has an opportunity and a responsibility to devise an effective missile shield to defend itself and its allies.

Hughes: You were in the Air Force in 1983, when then-President Ronald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative. Latiff: I worked on it. Hughes: Tell me about it. What was that like?

Trump’s order invokes former President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, which detractors labelled “Star Wars.” But much like Reagan’s push for total nuclear defense ...