Andrew Schwartz: I’m Andrew Schwartz, and you’re listening to The Truth of the Matter, a podcast by CSIS where we break down the top policy issues of the day and talk with the people that can help us best understand what’s really going on.
To get to the truth of the matter about the development of Golden Dome plus the 10th anniversary of the founding of the CSIS Missile Defense Project, we have with us none other than my good friend Tom Karako, who’s the director of our Missile Defense Project and a senior fellow in our Defense and Security Department. Welcome to the podcast, my friend.
Tom Karako: Great to – great to see you again, Andrew.
Mr. Schwartz: So before we get into the Golden Dome, which is, you know, quite in the news today and it’s fascinating, I want to ask you about what the mission of the Missile Defense Project that you direct was at its inception and how that’s evolved over the past decade.
Dr. Karako: Yeah. No, I appreciate that. We’re excited about marking 10 years. You know, this was – it was this month when we kicked it off. We had over the vice chairman, Admiral Winnefeld, and this was back in 2015. And I think, you know, what we’re trying to do – and Kath Hicks and John Hamre took a bet on us to get this thing off the ground, and as it turns out it’s become considerably more important over the past 10 years, considerably more in demand, which is great – I guess great in some ways, bad in others just in terms of how the world has shaped up.
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