Strong opinions, weakly held

Former Pentagon testing chief Phillip Coyle emailed Noah Schactman at Defense Tech to explain why the recently deployed missile defense system won’t work, and why pretending like it will is a danger to us. It’s hard to think concretely about government spending, given that there’s so much of it, but remember that we’re spending billions of dollars on this thing, and it has literally no chance of working. It’s stunning.