The hypersonic missile race is an unnecessary boondoggle for US

Last year, a group of high-ranking former military personnel and weapons company executives issued an ominous warning in an Atlantic Council report. U.S. adversaries, they said, were making rapid advances in hypersonic missile technology, “posing a severe challenge to US battlefield dominance.”“Now is the time to act decisively to close the hypersonic gap and defend the nation’s interests for the future,” the report declared. But is this really an existential threat? Will these technologies be a

Source: Responsible Statecraft