{"id":46204,"date":"2017-08-15T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46204"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:13","slug":"armstrong-north-korea-missile-crisis-echoes-israels-anti-rocket-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/08\/armstrong-north-korea-missile-crisis-echoes-israels-anti-rocket-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: North Korea missile crisis echoes Israel\u2019s anti-rocket strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, an associate professor in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, has written a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/north-korea-missile-crisis-echoes-israels-anti-rocket-strategy-82415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a> comparing the North Korea missile crisis to Israel&#8217;s anti-rocket strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/north-korea-guam-us-nuclear-missile-trump-kim-jong-un-1.4242162\">ballistic missiles<\/a> have been making headlines again. There\u2019s also been serious controversy over how the United States and other countries should react to that threat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To that end, it might help to examine Israel\u2019s experience in dealing with actual rocket attacks. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1287\/opre.2014.1309\">Some of my research<\/a> has explored the properties of its interceptor systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Israel is a leader in missile countermeasures because of its neighbours. It has experienced rocket fire for more than a decade from Hamas militants in Gaza and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The country hasn\u2019t forgotten Iraq\u2019s 1991 Scud missile strikes. It also worries about future attacks from Syria and <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/should-anyone-care-about-the-iranian-missile-strikes-21360\">Iran<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/north-korea-missile-crisis-echoes-israels-anti-rocket-strategy-82415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, an associate professor in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, has written a piece recently published in The Conversation comparing the North Korea missile crisis to Israel&#8217;s anti-rocket strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95276,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46204\/revisions\/95276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}