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Top U.S. Army Officer Urges More Missile Defenses, Better Integration In Europe

August 03 2017

USA

The United States and its allies in Europe need more missile defense capabilities and the ability to network them, says the outgoing head of U.S. Army Europe, as cited by Defense News.

The U.S. Army and its NATO partners have made significant progress in this area over the last three years, but much work remains, said Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges in an interview last month during an exercise at Bezmer Air Base in Bulgaria.

"Just the capacity, we don’t have enough, that is all there is...

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