Obama Alters Missile Defense Plan in Response To New Intelligence Estimate.

The article focuses on U.S. President Barack Obama's plans to alter the previous administration's missile defense architecture by changing its emphasis to interception of short- and medium-range missiles. As stated, the new vision calls for scrapping a radar system that would have been based in the Czech Republic and 10 two-stage Ground-Based Interceptors planned for silos in Poland. Instead, his plan calls for deployment of sea-based and land-based SM-3 missiles at multiple European sites.