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title: "Trump’s Iron Dome “ an aspirational plan” is Reagan’s Star Wars Rebranded"
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**I couldn’t believe what I was hearing from Trump!! Seriously. I’m old enough to remember that well slopped trough for the military industrial complex. The media is as much saying it’s Star Wars rebranded**

[**USA Today**](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/11/trump-iron-dome-missile-defense-order/78389280007)

> President Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders to kick off his second term sought to transform the United States – and also to shield it from nuclear attacks.
> 
> – “The Iron Dome for America” – directs the Pentagon to plan a “next generation missile defense shield” to guard against any threat from any foe. Trump’s order **invokes former President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, which detractors labelled “Star Wars.”**
> 
> But **much like Reagan’s push for total nuclear defense, major technological and budgetary hurdles exist for Trump’s vision,** and **policymakers and experts disagree on its feasibility and whether investing in homeland missile defense makes Americans safer at all.**

**This isn’t to make American’s safer. It’s being done to further enrich the military industrial complex- writ large**

### **An ‘aspirational’ plan**

> **Trump‘s plan, which explicitly aims to expand missile defense to cover the U.S. homeland against all attacks, is “aspirational,”** said Jon Ludwigson, director of the Government Accountability Office’s contracting and national security acquisitions team.

**Reagan announced the other Star Wars March 23, 1983
Strategic Defense Initiative**

> [The Strategic Defense Initiative — The Other “Star Wars”](https://adst.org/2015/11/the-strategic-defense-initiative-the-other-star-wars/)