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To: William JH who wrote (56483)	7/19/2000 2:35:08 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116906

OT(?) nalysis: Navy Vulnerable to Cruise Missiles Christopher W. Holton Wednesday, July 19, 2000 The General Accounting Office has released a report concluding that our Navy is growing more vulnerable every day to anti-ship cruise missile attacks. The July 11 report, "Comprehensive Strategy Needed to Improve Ship Cruise Missile Defenses," surely comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with defense and maritime issues. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand this vulnerability, and the GAO’s 58-page report could probably have been written in five pages or less by anyone who has served in the U.S. Navy over the past decade. Seven Years of Downsizing and Neglect, or, 'Sorry, Paul, Peter Is Out of Money' During the years of the Clinton administration, the U.S. fleet’s ability to defend itself against anti-ship cruise missiles has been frozen in time in some aspects and degraded in other aspects. During this seven-year period, not one new weapon system has been added to the inventory to defend against cruise missile attack. Sure, a few systems that were developed and ordered during the Reagan and Bush administrations came on line during the early Clinton years (AEGIS Vertical Launch System, Rolling Airframe Missile, or RAM), but no new items have been added in seven years. Meanwhile, the threat has been growing. Cruise Missiles: The Forgotten Threat When the Royal Navy’s HMS Sheffield and the U.S. Navy’s U.S.S. Stark were struck with Exocet cruise missiles in the 1980s, there was a high degree of awareness of the anti-ship missile threat. Today, the focus has shifted to the dangerous ballistic missile threat.(cont) newsmax.com