Photo: US Army Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly, director of the Pentagon Missile Defense Agency, pictured here in Washington July 9. Larry Downing/ReutersFrom The Christian Science Monitor:
The head of the Missile Defense Agency suggests the plans could be altered, echoing President Obama's desire to compromise with Russia.
Washington - A senior Pentagon official said Tuesday the Obama administration may be open to tweaking its plans for a missile-defense system in Eastern Europe.
The missile shield, proposed under President Bush to counter a threat from Iran, would locate 10 ground-based interceptors in Poland and a series of missile radar sensors in the Czech Republic.
The move has long angered Moscow, which perceives the development of the missile shield in its backyard as a hawkish move on the part of the US. Meanwhile, American officials have long maintained that the missile system is designed to defend the region against an Iranian missile threat.
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Update: U.S. Considering Technological Alternatives for European Missile Shield, General Says -- Global Security Newswire
My Comment: I expected news reports of this type to be making the mass media rounds a month or two after the U.S.-Russian summit of last week. I was wrong .... the Pentagon has received the message from the White House that this is the new tune on missile defense .... and they are playing it.
As for the promise to the Poles and Czechs that a missile defense program was to be installed in their countries this year/next year .... it appears that this is going to be revised.