I believe in a limited federal government, yet there are several jobs so large and so important that only the federal government can do them. Protecting Americans from the spread of the coronavirus even while searching for an effective vaccine (or vaccines) is certainly one such job.
Equally important, but less reported, is the effort to protect our country from missile attack.
For decades now, the Defense Department has been developing and refining several types of missile defense. A central part of our missile screen is the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element. It allows the military to engage and potentially destroy limited intermediate- and long-range ballistic missile threats in space.
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