MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Defense's decision to deploy 10 Ground-based Mid-course Interceptors in Poland will expose the real interim and end goals of its plans for a global anti-ballistic missile system, which Washington started creating after it withdrew from the Soviet-American 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002.

If the Pentagon chooses Turkey, it will be able to monitor not only Iran's missile program but also the situation in European Russia -- strategic missile forces deployed in Ivanovo, Tver, Saratov and Kaluga regions. If it opts for Israel, its main goal will be Iran, and if it deploys its ABM systems in Japan, the targets will be China and Russia, including Russia's strategic missile forces in the Krasnoyarsk territory.

The missile-tracking radar is ineffective without interceptor missiles, which means that a new ABM interceptor base inevitably will be built nearby. So we may soon hear about the "classified location" of such a base.

Russia is worried about these preparations, especially since its relations with the United States are deteriorating, including over South Ossetia. Russian generals are also worried because the United States is not fulfilling the pledges it made at the meetings of both countries' defense and foreign ministers to make the ABM system transparent to Russia.

Russian participants in these meetings have told me they believe the United States has no intention to formalize or make binding its promises "not to deploy anti-ballistic missiles in their silos until they know for certain that Iran has created missiles capable of reaching Europe" and "to place the Czech radar so that it faces only Iran."