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Book Synopsis National Missile Defense - Your Army Protecting Our Homeland by :
Download or read book National Missile Defense - Your Army Protecting Our Homeland written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next summer, our nation's leadership will make a critical defense decision that will affect our defense posture well into the next millennium. After fifty years of research and development of ballistic missiles and missile defense systems, and many aborted attempts to field systems designed to provide a limited missile defense for the homeland, our nation's leadership will decide whether or not to deploy a national missile defense (NMD) system to meet the growing threat to the homeland from ballistic missile attack. If the President decides to deploy, a limited NMD system with ground-based elements manned by the Army could be operational in 2005. A historical perspective. The defense of the United States is and always has been a soldier's most sacred responsibility. From the beginning, in 1775, the U.S. Army has played a pivotal role in the defense of the homeland. In 1794 the U.S. Congress charged the Army to build and staff coastal defense forts. As the threat changed from big-gunned ships to bomb-laden aircraft, the Army changed the focus of its defense from coastal forts to antiaircraft installations around American cities. In World War II, advances in missile technology allowed the threat to surpass existing defensive capabilities.
Book Synopsis Space and Missile Defense Challenges by :
Download or read book Space and Missile Defense Challenges written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense by : National Research Council
Download or read book Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provide an assessment of the feasibility, practicality, and affordability of U.S. boost-phase missile defense compared with that of the U.S. non-boost missile defense when countering short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats from rogue states to deployed forces of the United States and its allies and defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack. To provide a context for this analysis of present and proposed U.S. boost-phase and non-boost missile defense concepts and systems, the committee considered the following to be the missions for ballistic missile defense (BMD): protecting of the U.S. homeland against nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD); or conventional ballistic missile attacks; protection of U.S. forces, including military bases, logistics, command and control facilities, and deployed forces, including military bases, logistics, and command and control facilities. They also considered deployed forces themselves in theaters of operation against ballistic missile attacks armed with WMD or conventional munitions, and protection of U.S. allies, partners, and host nations against ballistic-missile-delivered WMD and conventional weapons. Consistent with U.S. policy and the congressional tasking, the committee conducted its analysis on the basis that it is not a mission of U.S. BMD systems to defend against large-scale deliberate nuclear attacks by Russia or China. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives suggests that great care should be taken by the U.S. in ensuring that negotiations on space agreements not adversely impact missile defense effectiveness. This report also explains in further detail the findings of the committee, makes recommendations, and sets guidelines for the future of ballistic missile defense research.
Book Synopsis National Missile Defense - Major Obstacles Still Remain by :
Download or read book National Missile Defense - Major Obstacles Still Remain written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of September 11, 2001 demonstrated that weapons can be used to create mass destruction on the U.S. homeland. The actual use of weapons of mass destruction, however, would create much more casualties and damage than that inflicted by the planes used by the terrorists last fall. In short, the rise of terrorism to the people of the U.S. and its interest, both at home and abroad, does not eliminate the requirement to protect our country from the growing ballistic missile threat. Yet, despite the December 2001 announcement by the President that the U.S. would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a National Missile Defense System that is capable of protecting the country from a limited ballistic missile attack is a long way from becoming a reality. While this paper will address five major obstacles to fielding a limited National Missile Defense system, the obstacles of recognizing the restrictions created by the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and understanding and solving the global political ramifications of fielding the system are the major focus. They are of great concern due to the political obstacles to the proposed National Missile Defense system, specifically, solving the bilateral diplomatic gamesmanship created by the present Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the U.S. and Russia and the diplomatic and political dilemmas that fielding a limited NMD system creates with Russia and other states of the world.
Book Synopsis Missile Defense 2020 by : Thomas Karako
Download or read book Missile Defense 2020 written by Thomas Karako and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In policy pronouncements over the last two administrations, the protection of the American homeland was regularly identified as the first priority of U.S. missile defense efforts. Homeland missile defense today is provided by the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program and other elements of the larger Ballistic Missile Defense System. The limited defenses fielded today have advanced considerably since limited defensive operations began in late 2004, but nevertheless they remain too limited and too modest relative to emerging threats. The Missile Defense Agency’s path to improve the system may require additional effort to stay ahead of even limited missile threats. This report explains how the current system works, as well as current and potential plans to modernize the system, and the authors offer recommendations for future evolution of the system.
Book Synopsis 2019 Missile Defense Review by : Department Of Defense
Download or read book 2019 Missile Defense Review written by Department Of Defense and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Missile Defense Review - January 2019 According to a senior administration official, a number of new technologies are highlighted in the report. The review looks at "the comprehensive environment the United States faces, and our allies and partners face. It does posture forces to be prepared for capabilities that currently exist and that we anticipate in the future." The report calls for major investments from both new technologies and existing systems. This is a very important and insightful report because many of the cost assessments for these technologies in the past, which concluded they were too expensive, are no longer applicable. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. We look over each document carefully and replace poor quality images by going back to the original source document. We proof each document to make sure it's all there - including all changes. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these large documents as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound, full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a HUBZONE SDVOSB. https: //usgovpub.com
Download or read book The 300 written by Daniel Wasserbly and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military and security expert Daniel Wasserbly introduces the elite unit tasked with protecting the nation from long-range weapons of mass destruction. Comprised of just three hundred soldiers, the United States Army’s 100th Missile Defense Brigade and 49th Missile Defense Battalion utilize sophisticated and cutting-edge technology to monitor the skies and seas surrounding the country and shield three hundred million Americans against any potential nuclear threat. Named for the number of Spartan warriors who defended Greece at the Battle of Thermopylae, these vigilant individuals endure rigorous, always-evolving regimens to maintain peak efficiency in the event of an actual nuclear strike. Assigned to extraordinary locations at Fort Greely, Alaska and Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, the 300 are responsible for the highest levels of homeland security. They not only maintain a never-ending watch via radar and sensor arrays, but receive continuous training in operating advanced interceptors designed to home in on and destroy in-flight ballistic missiles. It’s a complex—and occasionally unreliable—defense system that scientists and engineers are always improving and upgrading. With unprecedented access to the highly classified strategic nerve centers of U.S. Northern Command in Cheyenne Mountain, years of research, and dozens of exclusive interviews with normally inaccessible missile crews, Wasserbly reveals the incredible true story behind the 300’s essential defense operations.
Book Synopsis History of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Defense by : United States Army
Download or read book History of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Defense written by United States Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, U.S. Army Center of Military History commissioned a report on the History of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Defense, Volume I (1945-1955) and Volume II (1956-1972), which was part of a larger study of the strategic arms competition that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II. The report addresses each country's approach to civil defense against the threat from the air and each country's emphasis on specific elements of air defense strategy at various periods between 1945 and 1972. Two central questions concerned the U.S. and Soviet defense planners: "How might we be attacked?" and "How shall we defend our country?" Overall, technological changes were the predominant factor affecting air and missile defense strategy during the period primarily as they related to the developing offensive threat. The scope and pace of technological innovations introduced a measure of uncertainty, placed considerable strain on the stability of the U.S.-Soviet relationship, and raised fundamental challenges to previous concepts of how best to defend the United States. U.S. strategy was built on the variety of new weapon system developments; while Soviet defense trends demonstrated Soviet awareness and responded to developments in U.S. strategic offensive forces. The basic patterns of action were set by initial, and early, strategic choices. Thereafter, the strategic problem centered on technological development. Threat perceptions increasingly involved possible application of new technologies by the Soviets in order to define or delimit future threats. Perceptions of future threats were influenced by the view of available technologies, whether or not the Soviets had demonstrated the capacity to apply them. Available or known technologies were extrapolated to assess future threats. However, a direct action-reaction cycle was not seen as a factor in the development of U.S. and Soviet strategic air and missile defense systems.
Book Synopsis National Missile Defense - A Post 9/11 Imperative by :
Download or read book National Missile Defense - A Post 9/11 Imperative written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of September 11, 2001 (9/11) significantly altered the American people's perspective regarding all aspects of a homeland defense strategy. The outcome of this tragic attack demonstrated that the rules have changed and that our adversaries have the will and capability to strike American interests within our borders. Perhaps more relevant, it also exposed that if existing homeland defense vulnerabilities are not appropriately addressed, they will eventually be exploited. The purpose of this paper is to explore the future of National Missile Defense (NMD) as a post 9/11 imperative to a comprehensive homeland defense strategy. It will initially examine NMD policy objectives and its implications to the strategic environment. Examination of the current and future missile threat is offered next, followed by presentation of the Bush administration's layered NMD employment concept and future development strategy. A feasibility assessment of the Bush administration's NMD concept is then considered based on the factors of cost and technological readiness. The author will contend that if it is the fundamental responsibility of our government to provide for the defense of its people, then the decision to withdraw from the Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty and proactively pursue progressive deployment of a less restricted NMD capability represents coherent and warranted policy. Delaying implementation invites the future exploitation of existing missile defense vulnerabilities. However, our nation must concurrently contend with other clear and present dangers, suggesting prudent limitations to initial NMD options. Complex homeland defense challenges, including the emergence of new and innovative asymmetric threats, will continue to dictate future assessment of our NMD posture.
Book Synopsis National Missile Defense by : Robert T. Burns
Download or read book National Missile Defense written by Robert T. Burns and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of September 11, 2001 (9/11) significantly altered the American people's perspective regarding all aspects of a homeland defense strategy. The outcome of this tragic attack demonstrated that the rules have changed and that our adversaries have the will and capability to strike American interests within our borders. Perhaps more relevant, it also exposed that if existing homeland defense vulnerabilities are not appropriately addressed, they will eventually be exploited. The purpose of this paper is to explore the future of National Missile Defense (NMD) as a post 9/11 imperative to a comprehensive homeland defense strategy. It will initially examine NMD policy objectives and its implications to the strategic environment. Examination of the current and future missile threat is offered next, followed by presentation of the Bush administration's layered NMD employment concept and future development strategy. A feasibility assessment of the Bush administration's NMD concept is then considered based on the factors of cost and technological readiness. The author will contend that if it is the fundamental responsibility of our government to provide for the defense of its people, then the decision to withdraw from the Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty and proactively pursue progressive deployment of a less restricted NMD capability represents coherent and warranted policy. Delaying implementation invites the future exploitation of existing missile defense vulnerabilities. However, our nation must concurrently contend with other clear and present dangers, suggesting prudent limitations to initial NMD options. Complex homeland defense challenges, including the emergence of new and innovative asymmetric threats, will continue to dictate future assessment of our NMD posture.
Download or read book National Missile Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, President George W. Bush gained significant public support for his administration's idea of ending the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty and for building a defense system or a missile shield to protect the United States. This was because many people were more concerned about their safety than about arms control. Further, Russia and most U.S. allies were not going to argue too strenuously with President Bush after his country had been so viciously attacked. The first question that needs to be answered prior to building a missile defense system is as follows: Are long-range missiles a realistic threat to the United States? If it is determined that these types of missiles are a threat, a second logical question is the following: Does the technology exist to build a system that could realistically counter this threat? And finally, what are the costs of such a system? This paper first assesses the current threat situation, including the threat posed by North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Russia, and China, and then discusses the President's proposed solution. Other topics covered are the costs of building a missile defense shield, current developments in missile defense systems, alternatives to President Bush's defense shield, and the effects of the shield on arms control and U.S. relations with Russia and China. In summary, the paper expresses the general solution to missile defense as a system of systems based in layers including fixed U.S.-based defenses to ensure the homeland is protected even with little or no warning; a means to kill the threat missile in its boost phase and before any countermeasures can be deployed; and a flexible, deployable defense capable of destroying a missile in the boost phase or at the very least in the terminal phase. In conclusion, the author presents a recommendation for future U.S. missile defense policy.(17 refs.).
Book Synopsis Defending America by : James M. Lindsay
Download or read book Defending America written by James M. Lindsay and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arms control and missile defense are once again at the forefront of the American national security agenda. Not surprisingly, the debate has broken down along well-worn lines. Arms control advocates dismiss the idea of missile defense as a dangerous and costly folly. Missile defense advocates argue that the U.S. should move aggressively to defend itself against missile attack. With clear and lively prose free of partisan rhetoric, Defending America provides reliable, factual analysis of the missile defense debate. Written for a general audience, it assesses the current and likely future missile threat to the United States, examines relevant technologies, and suggests how America's friends and foes would react to a decision to build a national missile defense. Lindsay and O'Hanlon reject calls for large-scale systems as well as proposals to do nothing, instead arguing for a limited national missile defense.
Book Synopsis A Missile Defense for All by : Thomas H. Trumps
Download or read book A Missile Defense for All written by Thomas H. Trumps and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, more than sixteen years after the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the United States finds itself at a critical crossroads in determining how best to defend the homeland and deployed military forces against ballistic missile attack. The Department of Defense, and more specifically the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), appears prepared to make the difficult developmental and fielding decisions concerning the Missile Defense systems of the future. These systems will provide both the needed protection to deployed U.S. military forces and a limited defense to the United States well into and beyond the next decade. BMDO must not squander away its opportunity and responsibility to choose those Theater and Air Missile Defense and National Missile Defense systems that will produce the best defense while eliminating costly missile defense programs that show little hope of success. These are important times for Missile Defense.
Book Synopsis Ballistic Missile Defense by : Ayoub Vermeirsch
Download or read book Ballistic Missile Defense written by Ayoub Vermeirsch and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ballistic missile threat is increasing both quantitatively and qualitatively, and is likely to continue to do so over the next decade. Current global trends indicate that ballistic missile systems are becoming more flexible, mobile, survivable, reliable, and accurate, while also increasing in range. A number of states are also working to increase the protection of their ballistic missiles from pre-launch attack and to increase their effectiveness in penetrating missile defences. Several states are also developing nuclear, chemical, and/or biological warheads for their missiles. Such capabilities could be significant sources of military advantage during a conflict. But they may be equally significant in times of relative peace, when they undergird efforts to coerce states near and far. Regional actors such as North Korea and Iran continue to develop long-range missiles that will be threatening to the United States. There is some uncertainty about when and how this type of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) threat to the U.S. homeland will mature, but there is no uncertainty about the existence of regional threats. They are clear and present. The threat from short- range, medium-range, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs, MRBMs, and IRBMs) in regions where the United States deploys forces and maintains security relationships is growing at a particularly rapid pace. This book provides an overview of select issues and policies of the ballistic missile defence program.
Book Synopsis National Missile Defense: Opportunity Or Threat by :
Download or read book National Missile Defense: Opportunity Or Threat written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPrior to the election of 2000, presidential candidate George W. Bush campaigned with promises to bolster United States national security and strengthen the military. An essential element of his strategy for enhanced security was a National Missile Defense (NMD) system to protect the American "homeland" from a ballistic missile attack. Bush felt that a combination of international and domestic factors had come together to give the country a unique opportunity to build and deploy such a system. Once in office, his administration moved aggressively to make this opportunity a reality. Critics of the NMD proposal, however, have been equally aggressive in their opposition and argue that the current initiative should be considered more of a "threat" to national security than an "opportunity." The purpose of this paper is to first analyze the Bush administration's NMD proposal, then determine if it will serve as an effective component of the United States National Security Strategy. After a brief review of the NMD proposal, the paper will evaluate the initiative's strengths and weaknesses, and then conclude with recommendations on the future of NMD.
Book Synopsis September 11, 2001 and National Missile Defense by : Jim McDonough
Download or read book September 11, 2001 and National Missile Defense written by Jim McDonough and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether or not America needs a National Missile Defense (NMD) system in light of events of September 11, 2001 seems, in its simplest sense and on the one hand, to be a foregone conclusion. But on a more intellectual level, is this really the case? Can the events of perhaps the most tragic day in contemporary American history be responsible for altering the long debate over National Missile Defense to the point where deployment of a National Missile Defense system is imminent? The short answer is yes. The United States of America must deploy a National Missile Defense system now, in light of events of 9/11, if it is to "provide for the common defense" as charged by the Constitution. This paper analyzes the necessity for deploying a National Missile Defense system in light of events surrounding 9/11 using a construct organized around four specific criteria: 1) the changed nature of the ballistic missile threat, 2) movement in United States thinking concerning the effectiveness of deterrence for protecting the country against missile threats, 3) corresponding changes in American national security strategy goals and objectives, and 4) a serious reconsideration of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile (ABM) treaty. Using the criteria described, a framework for comparing the debate, both before and after 9/11, is established in an effort to ascertain shifts in the national and international discourse on a decision by the Government of the United States of America to field an operational National Missile Defense system. The conclusion is that the events of 9/11 have provided the Government of the United States reasonable and prudent justification to proceed with fielding an operational National Missile Defense system as soon as possible.
Book Synopsis A Missile Defense for All by : Thomas H. Trumps
Download or read book A Missile Defense for All written by Thomas H. Trumps and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, more than sixteen years after the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the United States finds itself at a critical crossroads in determining how best to defend the homeland and deployed military forces against ballistic missile attack. The Department of Defense, and more specifically the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), appears prepared to make the difficult developmental and fielding decisions concerning the Missile Defense systems of the future. These systems will provide both the needed protection to deployed U.S. military forces and a limited defense to the United States well into and beyond the next decade. BMDO must not squander away its opportunity and responsibility to choose those Theater and Air Missile Defense and National Missile Defense systems that will produce the best defense while eliminating costly missile defense programs that show little hope of success. These are important times for Missile Defense.