This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. A document from the White House.

Addressing vulnerabilities by modernizing an outdated system. The threat of attack by ballistic

crews and hypersonic missiles remains a catastrophic threat facing the United States.

This is the Trump White House.

Over the past 40 years, rather than lessening the threat from next generation strategic weapons,

including hypersonic, has become more complex with the development of next generation delivery systems by our adversaries.

That's enough.

Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang joins me,

and we're very pleased to welcome our colleague, Rebecca Grand of the Lexington Institute,

to comment on Iron Dome. You heard that metaphorical talk during the Israeli efforts to contend

with the Hezbollah incoming, the Iranian incoming, the Houthi incoming,

the Hamas income, Iron Dome. There are a number of other metaphors, including Thad. However,

we're looking at the ambition of the Trump administration right now to build an Iron Dome for North America.

Gordon and Rebecca, very good evening to you. Rebecca, I go to you. Is this practical? Can it be

done? Are we talking aspiration or fact on the ground? Good evening to you. Good evening. I think

Iron Dome is a little bit of fact and a lot of hard work ahead. The technology has evolved to the point

where we can detect and track and hit and kill incoming missiles. The big difference, of course,

is that for the United States, the threats are coming across the oceans. So we'll be dealing with

exo atmospheric intercept, dealing with cruise missiles

and drones, a lot of a different threat scape than what we saw with Israel and Iron Dome. So it's not

exactly an Iron Dome. It's more like an iron outfield, if you will, different ways to track and catch incoming.

And the build out right now, does this catch Washington by surprise?

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