Summary
Last week the recently-elected government in Warsaw announced that Poland would no longer consent to be a site for ten of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system interceptors unless Washington agreed at the same time to provide them with a number of short- and medium-range air defense systems, such as the Raytheon Patriot PAC-3 and Lockheed Martin Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense (THAAD). Placing the U.S. missile defense system on Polish soil has become widely unpopular in this country according to a number of opinion polls.
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Maintaining a Base: Trouble in Poland's Defense Industry
[The following is a reprint of an article originally appearing in The Weekly Standard. The Weekly Standard is located at http://www.weeklystandard.com. We would like to thank Reuben F. Johnson for allowing us to reprint his article.]
One of the more capable of the new North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations and one that possesses a rather robust defense industrial sector is Poland. During Soviet times, the Warsaw Pa...See the full content of this document
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