With great fanfare, the newly installed American President Donald Trump launched the idea of the United States creating an “Iron Dome” to protect America against aerial threats, similar to how the Iron Dome provides security to Israel. However, I find that the Golden Dome will bring the opposite of what the president thinks it will deliver.

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Patrick Bolder is a retired Lieutenant-Colonel from the Royal Netherlands Air Force with 40 years of service after graduating from the Royal Military Academy. He successfully graduated Higher Staff College in 2001 and NATO Defence College in 2015. He...