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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Israel, U.S. Military Cooperation Delivers Success for Arrow-3 Missile Defense System

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Categories: ASCF News Missile Defense

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Source: https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2022/01/19/israel-u-s-military-cooperation-delivers-success-for-arrow-3-missile-defense-system/

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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the Israeli military confirmed a successful test of the Arrow-3 missile defense system Tuesday. The acquisition is designed to help Israel defend against potential future aggression from nations such as Iran.

Both the Israeli military and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced they had successfully tested the defense system in central Israel.

The Arrow-3 is designed to intercept ballistic missiles outside of Earth’s atmosphere and destroy them there to minimise any risk to civilians. This will help negate collateral damage concerns associated with detonating nuclear or biological chemical missiles that could be potentially fired at Israel, closer to the Jewish state.

The Arrow-3 test conducted on the 18th of January consisted of two missiles being fired at an Israeli target and Arrow-3 interceptors being fired in response that were able to successfully destroy the missiles, UPI reports.

The Arrow-3 programme was first successfully tested in 2019 and it has been in production since 2008. The Arrow-3 system is already part of Israel’s multi-layer missile defense system which includes the Iron Dome, as Breitbart News reported.

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the Arrow-3 system will help “Israel’s ability to defend itself against emerging threats.”

The system has been suggested to have been put in place in response to Iran and their nuclear weapon programme, which has been exacerbated by Tehran’s ability to launch ballistic missiles.

Iran has not been confirmed to have nuclear weapons, however, Iranian political analysts have warned that Iran has all the components it needs to manufacture nuclear missiles should they choose to do so.

The Islamic nation’s ability to create weapons came as a by-product of former President Barack Obama’s JCPOA nuclear deal – which allowed Iran to enrich uranium, a key component to developing nuclear bombs.

President Donald Trump did withdraw from the deal in 2018, but President Joe Biden has indicated a potential return to the agreement with Iran – the largest sponsor of terrorist organisations in the world.

Meanwhile Israel continues to work on the upgrade of all its defense capabilities.

Iran currently does not adhere to any international requests on nuclear enrichment, which has led to widespread criticism of the Biden premiership by Republican politicians.

Wisconsin Republican Mike Gallagher expressed concerns over Biden’s handling of Iran saying that “sternly worded press releases and diplomatic deals in Geneva”, is not a viable solution to dealing with the Islamic nation.

Gallagher has highlighted that Biden has left America in a position where they “don’t have a credible military deterrent” which will allow the U.S.’ enemies “to walk all over” them.

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