In the 1970 the US constructed large defense missile sites in North Dakota and Montana.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_R._Mickelsen_Safeguard_Complex
The Montana complex was never completed and the North Dakota complex operated for 6 months.  These were built under the defense against  Russians missiles.   The site contractors made money. The missile companies made money. Companies made more money when they decommissioned the missiles from the sites where they had not eve had a live fire test. The tax payers got nothing in return.   Will all this talk about new missile bases be more of the same fear based defense spending?

We live in the era where a drone operated inside the US can guide a smart bomb from an aircraft miles above some location in the ME.   Why are we resorting to the old missile defense ideas that are obsolete?   Something is wrong unless you are a military industrial complex company.