Reagan’s Words Ring True as Ukraine Missile Defense Stops Top Russian Weapons

The American president was nearly laughed out of town in the early 1980s when he promoted the Strategic Defense Initiative, widely ridiculed as ‘Star Wars,’ but missile defense is having a big impact on today’s battlefields.

White House Photographic Collection via Wikimedia Commons
President Reagan addresses the nation on national security and defense, the so-called 'Star Wars' speech, from the Oval Office, March 23, 1983. White House Photographic Collection via Wikimedia Commons

In one of its most successful feats of the war, Ukraine destroyed some of Russia’s top-shelf weapons Tuesday night, boosting President Reagan’s once-ridiculed concept of missile defense. 

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