Correct. This is not to mention Golden Dome is a systems-of-systems that is vulnerable at the individual-node level. For example, the interceptors have to communicate with the data transport layer which then has to communicate with fire control and ground stations. Of course then the solution would be to move those elements into orbit too which would incentize the adversary to do increasingly escalatory things in space.
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Correct. This is not to mention Golden Dome is a systems-of-systems that is vulnerable at the individual-node level. For example, the interceptors have to communicate with the data transport layer which then has to communicate with fire control and ground stations. Of course then the solution would be to move those elements into orbit too which would incentize the adversary to do increasingly escalatory things in space.
Not exactly. GBMD is designed for the mid-course coasting phase, so it has to deal with possible space decoys. GD is designed for the boost phase, or just right after that. No decoys to contend with, but a much shorter window of opportunity for your kill vehicle (you literally need to be already very close to have any chance of intercepting).
Both capabilities have merit and can work very well together, but as we said they are not an answer to a peer force in a massive nuclear exchange.
I always wonder if the DoD & IC advisors who actually do the daily reporting to the White House are more the sober, frank at least somewhat reality conveying ones like him or more the delusion & superiority peddling chauvinists, like what most of the senior brass of the services still seem to be or who Putin probably had around him before Feb 2022. Because whether reality can even partially break into their information bubble vs if those positions are all occupied by the ubiquitous lie peddlers in DC would have a huge impact on their decisionmaking.
For example, I frequently hear DoD leadership who ought to know better more than anyone else parrot literal tabloid/twitter-tier disinfo headlines about the PLA or their exported products, often times things even people here have easily & thoroughly debunked, if Trump is getting fed by people like them well he's in for the loudest kinetic bitchslap of human history.