Mark Kimmitt: Defense shield is an old issue

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President Donald Trump’s next-gen defense shield tackles a decades-old issue of US territorial defense, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Retired Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt says.

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00:00This is an old, old issue that has come about for years and years.

00:05I remember before I went into the military in 1972, that the ABM Treaty, the Anti-Ballistic

00:13Missile Treaty, was signed between the United States and Russia.

00:17Ten years later, you had President Reagan signing the ABM Treaty with Russia.

00:22This is a long process of treaties between the United States and its adversaries, in

00:30terms of either reducing or defending against the threat of nuclear weapons invading each

00:35other's homelands.

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