Proliferation of Cruise Missiles Sparks Concern About U.S. Air Defenses

摘要

The Pentagon calls them, euphemistically, "asymmetric" weapons. The U.S. military fears them because they sneak into blind spots. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw the rise of improvised explosive devices as the ultimate asymmetric weapon. Future conflicts, strategists warn, could expose U.S. forces on land and at sea to a deadly weapon that is extremely hard to detect: cruise missiles.