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Exactly, this is redundancy and when militaries have the money - i.e. the American military - it's everywhere. Your land-based ICBMs taken out? Go to the bombers? Shot down? Go to the SSBNs. Sunk? (as in, to the bottom) Go to your nuke arty. Nuke cruise missiles, so on forth. You must have multiple layers of defence.
As another example, the US will most likely shoot down any threat to its carriers before it launches; however, they still spend a hell of a lot of money finding ways - ESSM, SM-2, AEGIS, ECM, RAM - to shoot down these hypothetical anti-ship missiles. And if that doesn't work, they say the Nimitz-class has the firefighting capacity of a small town as well as armour.
Of course, the real incentive is to take the fight away from your shores and this is graphically demonstrated in the United States, which did that in WWII and thus laid one of the foundations for superpowerdom.
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