Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr.

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That's something we should think about doing because possession of Iranian soil would be a significant factor in future negotiations with Iran,
What you want to do is you want to spread out that necklace of bases far to the west, where you make it harder for the Iranians to see you, you make it harder for the Iranians to range you,
  • McKenzie said Monday during a virtual conference hosted by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) and attended by Newsweek
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We need to be able to move, we need to be able to deceive about where our locations are, and that's going to require not only significant electromagnetic emanation management, it's going to require an understanding of what's in space looking at us, and how do we deal with that,
What you've got really is an artifact of earlier posture decisions,
Although over time we should recognize Iranian missiles are going to increase in range,... but I'm solving a problem for today."
These are not back-of-the-envelope calculations, these are things we've been working on for many years,

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