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    America Scrambles to Catch Up With Chinese and Russian Weapons

    Trump’s new missile-defense strategy adds up to an effort to solve a political problem with expensive hardware.
    by Kathy Gilsinan Jan 18, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Mark Meyer / Reuters

    “We have some very bad players out there,” President Donald Trump warned from a Pentagon podium on Thursday. Advanced missile technologies are spreading among great powers and rogue actors alike, and with them new threats to the United States. So Trump threatened back. “We’re a good player, but we can be far worse than anybody, if need be.”

    The blueprint he unveiled for doing that, the Pentagon’s long-delayed Missile Defense Review, outlined

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