The Obama budget sent to Capitol Hill contains drastic cuts of up to two thirds to a joint missile defense program undertaken with Israel. This news coincides with news that Israel has intercepted a shipment of advanced surface-to-surface missiles from Iran, bound for Hamas terrorists in Gaza – precisely the sort of threat that the missile defense research is designed to counter. Adam Kredo writes in the Washington Free Beacon: Joint U.S.-Israeli missile defense programs would be reduced by nearly $200 million under President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal, prompting concern from lawmakers who have fought to keep the critical defense programs fully funded. Israeli Cooperative Programs—which include the Arrow II, Arrow III, and David’s Sling missile defense systems—are slated to receive $96.8 million under Obama’s newly released budget proposal, a reduction of nearly $200 million from the previous year’s finalized...(Read Full Post)