When U.S. President Barack Obama cancelled a scheduled September 2013 summit meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, "lack of progress on issues such as missile defense" was cited as the primary justification. Despite widespread and well founded assumption that...
U.S. attitudes to missiledefense capability, stemming from a continued failureto achieve meaningful dialogue over U.S. plans andRussian fears.Russia's vehement objections to U.S. plans for missiledefense installations in Europe, and the range ofunfriendly actions promised in...