Facing the Missile Challenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Facing the Missile Challenge write by David W. Kearn. This book was released on 2012. Facing the Missile Challenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), signed in 1987, eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers from the United States and Soviet arsenals. The treaty was a diplomatic watershed, signaling the beginning of the end of the Cold War, and has served as a basis for security and stability of Europe. However, the security environment has changed dramatically in the past twenty years. To develop and deploy a new generation of land-based intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the United States would have to withdraw from the Treaty. Such an action would have significant political and military implications. The study attempts to explore and illuminate some potential responses of critical international actors, such as Russia, China, and America's NATO and East Asian allies, to fully understand the expected costs that may be incurred over time. The study concludes with a consideration of potential ways forward for the United States to provide policymakers with guidance on how to proceed in both diplomatic and political-military terms to best address the missile-proliferation threat.
The Cruise Missile Challenge
The Cruise Missile Challenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cruise Missile Challenge write by Jeff Kueter. This book was released on 2007. The Cruise Missile Challenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Marshall Institute reviews why cruise missiles are an attractive weapon for those nations and terrorist groups that wish harm to the U.S., outlines how these weapons have proliferated and discusses why that trend is likely to continue, and then evaluates the options available to the United States to counter the growing challenge posed by cruise missiles. "Because cruise missiles are small, swift, low-flying and stealthy, and so extremely difficult to detect and defend against, they are an ideal weapons system for a state or group seeking to challenge the U.S. in the face of major mismatch in overall military power," the study points out. Tens of thousands of cruise missiles are already in the possession of more than 70 nations and the trends are only getting worse. A robust international marketplace for completed systems as well as components coupled with improving indigenous manufacturing capabilities will only make it easier to acquire these sophisticated weapons. "The acquisition and use of cruise missiles by terrorist groups or states hostile to the United States is inevitable," said Marshall Institute President and study co-author Jeff Kueter. "The choice we face today is whether the United States will take the necessary steps to protect its citizens from this inevitability." While there are a number of defensive systems available or in various stages of development which could provide viable, wide-area defenses for American cities, "the public and policy makers do not see cruise missiles as an urgent challenge," Kueter said. "That is a mistake and one we need to correct.""--Marshall Institute web site.
Defense Management: Key Challenges Should be Addressed When Considering Changes to Missile Defense Agency¿s Roles and Missions
Defense Management: Key Challenges Should be Addressed When Considering Changes to Missile Defense Agency¿s Roles and Missions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defense Management: Key Challenges Should be Addressed When Considering Changes to Missile Defense Agency¿s Roles and Missions write by John H. Pendleton. This book was released on 2009-09. Defense Management: Key Challenges Should be Addressed When Considering Changes to Missile Defense Agency¿s Roles and Missions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To more quickly field ballistic missile defenses, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has been exempted from traditional DoD requirements dev¿t., acquisition, and oversight processes. Instead, MDA has unique missions to develop and field weapon systems that address a variety of ballistic missile threats. To date, MDA has spent $56 billion and plans to spend $50 billion more through 2013 to develop an integrated Ballistic Missile Defense System. The system includes defensive components such as sensors, radars, interceptors, and command and control. This testimony summarizes the challenges facing DoD in acquiring and operating its ballistic missile defense systems and describes DoD's efforts to improve transparency and accountability.
New Challenges in Missile Proliferation, Missile Defense, and Space Security
New Challenges in Missile Proliferation, Missile Defense, and Space Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Challenges in Missile Proliferation, Missile Defense, and Space Security write by . This book was released on 2003. New Challenges in Missile Proliferation, Missile Defense, and Space Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
International Perspectives on Missile Proliferation and Defenses
International Perspectives on Missile Proliferation and Defenses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Perspectives on Missile Proliferation and Defenses write by Center for nonproliferation studies. This book was released on 2011-08-01. International Perspectives on Missile Proliferation and Defenses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies (MCIS) at the University of Southampton are very pleased to initiate a new Occasional Paper series devoted to the topic of ballistic missile proliferation. The focus of this series reflects the concern of both centers that the spread of ballistic missiles constitutes one of the most serious and complex nonproliferation challenges today. This problem was highlighted in an extensive study on the future of nuclear weapons conducted by MCIS between 1997-99. It pointed to the role ballistic missile proliferation could play in threatening new action-reaction arms instabilities of great complexity and unpredictability, the reaction part of this equation being the pursuit of ballistic missile defenses, in particular by the United States. These instabilities were likely to simultaneously limit nuclear disarmament and stimulate nuclear proliferation, as well as threaten peaceful uses of space. In parallel, however, a process was also underway to build a regime to control ballistic missiles. This situation led MICS to initiate a project focused on addressing this emerging range of political and technical issues. One of its aims is to move the debate over missile defenses into an international context. A second is to assist in international efforts to develop mechanisms for multilateral control of ballistic missiles. The strategy chosen by MCIS was to engage states by requesting the preparation of short papers setting out national perceptions of the challenges facing the international community in the areas of missile proliferation and missile defense. An international workshop that included leading research organizations and individuals working in the field followed. Its purpose was to identify both the main policy issues emerging from the national papers and the evolving international debate, and to prepare the agenda for a larger seminar bringing together a broader range of specialists and those who had attended the first research workshop. The first workshop took place in December 2000, and the seminar will occur in March 2001.The aim of the seminar is to initiate a process of .Track-2. international dialogue on these issues, as well as agree the formation of an international consortium of research institutes to pursue this work. The contributions to this Occasional Paper were initially prepared as presentations for the December 2000 workshop. At that meeting, it was suggested that an early volume offering an overview of the missile defense issue and emerging challenges would be a useful contribution to the international debate on the control of missile proliferation and defenses, and serve as the first product of the new venture, to be known as the Mountbatten Centre International Missile Forum (MCIMF). Initial partner organizations in this Forum are the publishers of this occasional paper, the Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS); the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI); the Japanese Institute of International Affairs (JIIA); the Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment; and the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt (PRIF). We would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the generous financial support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which has enabled the project to move forward on a secure financial basis, and to thank the editorial staff of CNS for their work in producing this publication.
