MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s long-awaited missile defense review that will be released Thursday [1-17-19] recommends additional deployments of anti-missile systems at home, abroad and possibly in space, according to a senior administration official. The two-year review, which was ordered by President Donald Trump just days after he took office, calls for a third suite of interceptors located on U.S. territory to defend against intercontinental ballistic missiles. It also recommends additional study of the controversial idea of placing weapons in orbit to strike enemy missiles launched from Earth. The document, which will be unveiled by Trump at the Pentagon on Thursday morning, is being billed by the White House as the first comprehensive analysis of the global missile threat since 2010 and is geared heavily toward blunting advancing Russian and Chinese arsenals, not just those of Iran or North Korea.”
–Bryan Bender, “Trump review calls for more missile defenses but no space weapons — yet,” Politico, January 16, 2019 11:30 pm