Georgia Ready to Hosts Elements of European Missile Defense

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has announced that his country would welcome deployment of X-band radar, an element of regional missile defense system designed to protect Central Asia and the Middle East from Iran, in its territory.

OPINION: Missile Defense Zealotry

If there’s one thing that missile defense zealots can’t stand, it’s the implementation of missile defense plans. Josh Rogin reports:

The U.S.-Russia Missile Defense Impasse

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Obama met privately before the G8 meeting in Deauville, France, and discussed the longstanding dispute between the two countries over missile defense, says CFR Russia expert Stephen Sestanovich.

Tbilisi ‘interested’ in U.S. Missile Defense Radar

Georgia is interested in the proposal by a group of U.S. senators that Tbilisi host a missile defense radar, Deputy Foreign Minister David Dzhalagania said on Monday.

Senators Call for NATO Missile Defense in Georgia

Four Republican senators are calling on the Obama administration to place a sensitive missile defense-related radar site in Georgia, rather than in Turkey, as is currently planned.

Russia’s New Military Doctrine Is Outdated, NATO Chief Says

NATO Secretary- General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATO’s Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said what everyone in Europe and the U.S. has been thinking for some time: that Russia is not in touch with the current military threats in today’s world. NATO expansion is not the “main external danger” to Russia’s borders, nor is the U.S. expansion of missile defense in Eastern Europe a threat.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia’s new military doctrine is outdated and “does not reflect the real world.”

The doctrine, approved last month, identifies NATO’s expansion east to Russia’s borders as a “main external danger” and also sees U.S. plans to create an anti-missile shield in Europe as a national security concern.

But Rasmussen said NATO is not a threat to Russia and will “never invade Russia.”