{
  "id": 18546,
  "url": "https://breakingdefense.com/2026/08/army-needs-comprehensive-missile-defeat-strategy-to-address-air-defense-challenges",
  "title": "Army needs ‘comprehensive missile defeat strategy’ to address air defense challenges",
  "summary": "“We need a more comprehensive missile defeat strategy that focuses on interceptors, [but also] equally so on non-kinetic effects, both electronic warfare and directed energy, and the type of targeting in C2 … that will enable us to use that data to make decisions to engage targets faster,” said SMD head Lt. Gen. John Rafferty.",
  "authors": "Ashley Roque",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-11T16:31:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-12T05:10:43.828Z",
  "source_slug": "x-breaking-defense-ai",
  "source_name": "Breaking Defense (AI)",
  "source_homepage": "https://breakingdefense.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18546",
  "original_url": "https://breakingdefense.com/2026/08/army-needs-comprehensive-missile-defeat-strategy-to-address-air-defense-challenges",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}