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Retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Matthew Isler has written a serious and well-grounded assessment of where integrated air and missile defense stands today and where it must go. Published in War on the Rocks on May 14, 2026, his piece, "The New Era of Air and Missile Defense", deserves close reading by anyone thinking through the future of distributed, networked warfare. More than that, it deserves to be placed in a broader analytical context, because what Isler describes as a structural failure of current defensive architecture is precisely what the kill web concept anticipated, and what recent combat, above all, Operation Epic Fury and the subsequent regional defense against Iranian retaliation, has now validated at operational scale. Isler's core argument is that modern air and missile defense...