President Donald Trump announced that he would sign an executive decree calling for the construction of an anti -missile defense program “Iron Dome”.
Monday, Trump tackled A retirement for the republican legislators of its golf station in the south of Florida, the national Trump Doral Miami, where he undertook to strengthen American military assets with an executive action later in the evening.
“We must have a strong and solid defense,” said Trump on the podium. “And in a little while, I will sign four new decrees.”
The first, he explained, was “immediately starting to build an Iron Dome anti-missile defense shield at the cutting edge of technology, which will be able to protect the Americans”.
Two other orders, he added, would aim to suppress the initiatives of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and to “bring out the transgender ideology of our soldiers”.
A fourth order would also restore the soldiers who were released to refuse to comply with the mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 8,000 members had been released for this reason between August 2021 and January 2023.
Trump has developed the actions if necessary to ensure that the United States has “the most deadly combat strength in the world”.
A flood of decrees
Monday’s announcement on Monday marked another undulation in an executive shares tsunami that Trump has taken since his return to the White House on January 20.
According to civil servantsTrump signed a record number of executive actions on his first day in power, amounting to a total of 42 orders, memorandums and proclamations.
Many of these initial orders concerned immigration and social problems. For example, he took a step to put an end to the citizenship of the right of birth, a constitutionally protected right which confuses any person born in the United States with citizenship.
But some of his first decrees rided with those revealed on Monday.
He called for the end of the Government Dei programs that he accused to perpetrate “illegal and immoral discrimination”. And he signed another order declaring that male and female gender identities are “not modifiable”.
But the last series of orders deals directly with the composition of the American army and its strategic priority.
Monday orders, for example, echo a “transgender military ban” that Trump continued in 2017, during his first mandate. This ban was then reversed by President Joe Biden in 2021.
It is estimated that 8,000 members of the service are transgender – although more fear to identify publicly.
The executive orders that Trump revealed also coincided with the first day of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Pentagon.
Hegseth, a veteran and former Fox News host, previously took what he described as an “awake” ideology going beyond the army and wondered if women were to play in combat roles.
As a Pentagon chief, Hegseth is committed to supervising a great overhaul of military leadership and restoring a “warlike culture” in the armed forces.
Hesgeth overcome the allegations of sexual abuse and alcoholism to be confirmed on Friday by 50 republican senators.
Three Republicans, including the former leader of the Mitch McConnell Senate party, opposed his appointment.
Build an “iron dome”
Trump’s executive decree to build an “iron dome” fulfills a commitment that the republican chief made on the campaign track.
Iron Dome refers to an air defense system funded by the United States in Israel which detects and intercepts incoming rockets.
Trump had repeatedly described his desire to go beyond the Iron Dome system of Israel in his re -election campaign in 2024.
In a August broadcast on the X social media platform, he told billionaire Elon Musk that he planned to build “the best iron dome in the world”.
And in July, he added Iron Dome’s proposal to the official Republican Party platform.
But military experts wondered several times if such a system is necessary, even achievable, for the United States.
The system used in Israel currently only protects against rockets and relatively low mortars. And Israel himself has only the size of New Jersey, one of the small states of the United States.
Experts say that the creation of a similar system through the vast American continent would be prohibitive, without forgetting probably ineffective, given the advanced firepower of potential adversaries like Russia and China.
Observers also emphasize that the United States has already implemented anti-missile defense programs, including the defense system in the middle of the course and the Defense Program of the high-end area area (Thaad).
The future of Trump’s Iron Dome project is not unclear, because it is almost guaranteed to demand the funding appropriate by the congress.
“You know, we protect other countries, but we don’t protect ourselves,” Trump said on Monday.
“Now we have phenomenal technology. You see that with Israel where, out of 319 rockets, they overthrow almost each of them. So I think the United States is entitled to this. »»
