Russia's top general ridiculed U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Europe as unworkable and warned Washington that Moscow could react with military force if it felt threatened. Moscow has reacted angrily to the proposed U.S. missile defense system, parts of which would be located in Poland and the Czech Republic. Despite U.S. assurances, Moscow has said it sees the missile system as a threat. The chief of Russia's general staff, General Yuri Baluyevsky said that since 1945 the U.S. had made little progress on anti-ballistic missile defense and some of its much-touted anti-missile systems were "raw or even untested." Washington says the shield is designed to intercept missiles from rogue states such as Iran, not to counter any Russian military threat.
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