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Author : Jack N. Barkenbus
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Stability and Strategic Defenses written by Jack N. Barkenbus and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dean Wilkening
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780833007766
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Strategic Defenses and First-strike Stability written by Dean Wilkening and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 1986 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of strategic defenses on stability is a central theme in the Strategic Defense Initiative debate. This report examines the effects of defenses on first-strike stability. It is principally concerned with assessing first-strike stability during the transition from an offense-dominated strategic balance to a defense-dominated balance. It also examines the implications of various offensive and defensive force structures. The findings suggest that (1) first-strike instability during the defense transition can be minimized by careful force planning; (2) the most stable defense transition occurs when the ballistic missile defense transition is completed before significant levels of air defense are deployed; (3) arms control efforts will not necessarily reduce potential first-strike instabilities unless each side's counterforce capability is reduced; (4) asymmetries in each side's ability to suppress the opponent's defenses can lead to instabilities during, and after, the defense transition; and (5) biased perceptions make the defense transition either more or less stable, depending on the nature of the bias.
Author : Steven W Guerrier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000301583
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Perspectives On Strategic Defense written by Steven W Guerrier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together proponents and opponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative, this book includes original essays by leading experts on every aspect of the issue. The collection provides a valuable introduction to the many complex questions involved in any serious consideration of the SDI. The contributors explore such issues as the strategic impl
Author : Russian Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309468914
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Regional Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability written by Russian Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As ballistic missile technology proliferates, and as ballistic missile defenses are deployed by both the Russian Federation and the United States, it is increasingly important for these two countries to seek ways to reap the benefits of systems that can protect their own national security interests against limited missile attacks from third countries without undermining the strategic balance that the two governments maintain to ensure stability. Regional Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability examines both the technical implications of planned missile defense deployments for Russian and U.S. strategic deterrents and the benefits and disadvantages of a range of options for cooperation on missile defense.
Author : Glenn A. Kent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780833011022
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book First-strike Stability and Strategic Defenses written by Glenn A. Kent and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pressing issue facing the United States in the early 1990s centers on whether, and for what strategic purposes, the United States should deploy nationwide ballistic missile defenses (BMD). One argument is that such defenses could enhance stability. This report extends the methodology developed in R-3765 to assess the effect of BMD deployments on first-strike stability. The authors conclude that (1) first-strike stability is currently robust; (2) deployment of strategic nationwide BMD by either superpower in competition with the other's strategic offenses generally erodes first-strike stability; (3) there might be a level at which U.S. and Soviet BMD could effectively defend against third-country ballistic missile attacks, unauthorized attacks, and accidental launches, without being so robust that it would undermine first-strike stability; (4) the buildup of U.S. defenses during Phase I deployment seems to exceed this level; and (5) maintaining effective bomber forces on both sides would be critical to any attempt to move from offense dominance to defense dominance.
Author : Hans Binnendijk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Strategic Defense in the 21st Century written by Hans Binnendijk and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dean A. Wilkening
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136063404
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Ballistic-Missile Defence and Strategic Stability written by Dean A. Wilkening and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should the US deploy ballistic-missile defences? The arguments for and against are becoming increasingly polarised. This paper offers what is currently lacking in the debate: a quantitative analysis of how well defences would have to work to meet specific security objectives, and what level of defence might upset strategic stability.
Author : James A. Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Strategic Defense and Deterrence written by James A. Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First, technology is moving forward, making strategic defenses appear to be a more cost effective option than there were in the 1960s. Second, were we able to obtain a significant advantage over the USSR in strategic defenses, we could have a substantial measure of strategic superiority over them. Third, if both sides deploy significant strategic defense capabilities, the nature of the offensive force balance will become even more important than it is today; in particular, strategic force vulnerabilities that are worrisome today could prove disastrous for stable deterrence in a world that includes robust strategic defenses. Fourth, this picture would be sharply changed should strategic defenses themselves prove vulnerable, for this might create the first strike in space that would decisively alter the balance of forces on earth. Fifth, strategic defenses are likely to call NATO's strategy of diliberate nuclear escalation into even deeper question than it is today. The U.S.R & D program should be based on three criteria: First, our program should hedge against a Soviet breakout of the ABM Treaty and--in the longer term--against Soviet deployment of space-based defensive systems. Second, we should be looking for weapons concepts that will provide for quantum increases in capability and quantum reduction in cost. Finally, our technology programs need to be conducted with a view toward survivable defenses, especially for their spacebased components.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (227 download)
Download or read book First-Strike Stability and Strategic Defenses: Part 2 of a Methodology for Evaluating Strategic Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-strike stability between two adversaries is robust when both leaders perceive no great difference between the expected 'cost' to each side of striking first and the expected 'cost' of incurring a first strike if one withholds his attack. Conclusions include: (1) First-strike stability is currently quite robust. (2) Deployment of strategic nationwide ballistic missile defenses by either superpower in competition with the other's strategic offenses generally erodes first-strike stability. (3) Neither country would be likely to continue to adhere to agreements that constrain and reduce offensive arms under the specter of intent by the other to deploy robust strategic defenses in contravention to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. (4) There may be a 'window' in which United States and Soviet strategic nationwide BMD could be robust in defending against 'limited' attacks (third-country ballistic missile attacks, unauthorized attacks, and accidental launches), yet not so robust that first-strike stability is seriously undermined. (5) The level of U.S. defenses attributed to the so-called 'Phase I' deployment seems to go beyond the upper bounds of this 'window' even with current offensive forces, and certainly with offensive forces constrained by START I. (6) Any attempt to transition to a situation in which each side's strategic defenses dominate the opponent's ballistic missiles must include a careful negotiation on the critical role of bomber forces in maintaining firs-strike stability.
Author : George A. Keyworth
Publisher : University of California, Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Security and Stability written by George A. Keyworth and published by University of California, Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation. This book was released on 1985 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert C. McFarlane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Strategic Defense Initiative written by Robert C. McFarlane and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry L Pugh (Jr)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (227 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Future Strategic Defenses on Strategic Stability written by Henry L Pugh (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study provides an analysis of stability issues associated with developing and deploying strategic defenses. Strategic stability is defined in the context of current US and Soviet defense policy, and stability criteria are developed in terms of the abstract concepts of crisis and arms race instabilities and in terms of more pragmatic issues of system survivability and cost effectiveness. The study offers a stability assessment of some generic SDI options based on the criteria above. The study concludes that defensive system survivability is a key stabilizing factor regardless of the level of defensive capability which the SDI process may deliver, while defensive capability is more important in determining whether a nation can adopt a countervailing, war-fighting, or defense emphasis strategy.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (946 download)
Download or read book Strategic Defense and International Stability written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers grew out a workshop on Strategic Defenses and international Stability held at Los Alamos on October 30, 1987. The workshop was sponsored by the Center for National Security Studies of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The purpose of the workshop was to present a broad discussion of the relationship between stability and defenses against ballistic missiles. A range of views about the relationship exists in policy circles in the United States and among our allies, and this range was reflected in the presentations by a panel of experts. The term "stability" has a number of specific meanings when used in public discussion of strategic matters. This report first examines these different meanings--deterrence stability, crisis stability, arms control stability, and alliance stability-in the context of historical and contemporary strategic problems. Each member of the panel of experts then, in turn, assesses the effects of strategic defenses on stability for each of the meanings given above.
Author : Craig Snyder
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512807451
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Strategic Defense Debate written by Craig Snyder and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The goal of our strategic defense research program, the vision and hope of the President, is to stop Soviet missiles before they could destroy any targets, be they in the United States or anywhere else. The goal is noble and straightforward: to destroy weapons that kill people. Thus, based on a realistic view of Soviet military planning, the transition to strategic defense would not be destabilizing. In fact, any initial defensive capabilities would offer many benefits. . . . This objective is far more idealistic, moral, and practical than the position taken by those who still embrace the mutual assured destruction (MAD) theory that defenses must be totally abandoned."—Caspar Weinberger "This is basically a research program and should remain so, at least for the foreseeable future. . . . In a world that relies on an exquisite strategic balance to forestall the holocaust, it would be the worst of blunders to jolt the tightrope when the safety net is tied at only one end."—James Schlesinger "Neither Star Wars I or Star Wars II, in whatever form one considers them, is an effective response to the public's intuitive awareness of the unacceptable risk posed by our present nuclear strategy."—Robert McNamara "The goal of our innovative science and technology program is to establish scientific feasibility and engineering validation of revolutionary concepts. concepts with potential for full SDI technological development. This forward-looking office has a broad research charter which focuses on advanced directed energy concepts such as gamma-ray lasers. on novel sensing and data preprocessing techniques, on advanced materials for space applications, on innovations in spacepower, and on emerging spacescience applications and ultra-high-speed supercomputing. Interest in such exotic areas of science and technology clearly illustrates that SDI has greatly facilitated the mobilization of our nation's scientific community."—Lt . Gen. James Abrahamson Prominent world leaders and scientists came together in 1985 to discuss the technological feasibility and the political sensibility of "Star Wars." Their essays, presented in The Strategic Defense Debate, provide, for the first time a comprehensive look at this timely and controversial subject. Craig Snyder's introduction and headnotes to the collection highlight the critical points of each essay, as well as their conceptual significance to the overall topic. Contributors include: Caspar Weinberger, James Schlesinger, Lieutenant General James A. Abrahamson. Robert S. McNamara, Andrew Cockburn, Richard Pipes. Stephen F. Cohen, Adam Garfinkle, Leon Wieseltier. Michael Vlahos, Franklin Long, Francis Pym, Major Simon P. Worden, Richard Garwin, Robert S. Cooper, Colin S. Gray, Robert Bowman, Alex Gliksman, and Warren Zimmerman. Excerpts from President Reagan's speech "Peace and National Security" and Ambassador Paul H. Nitze's speech "On the Road to a More Stable Peace" are also included. The essays were originally presented at a conference sponsored by The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia in late 1985. The Strategic Defense Debate will be invaluable to students, scholars and lay persons interested in politics, history. military strategy and Soviet relations.
Author : R. James Woolsey
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819166968
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Defending Peace and Freedom written by R. James Woolsey and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet-American relationship encompasses a broad range of issues, but the strategic stability of that relationship is first and foremost a question of central military balanceócomprehensive, and not just in nuclear forces. Yet, even as a primarily military issue, strategic stability has important political, economic, and psychological dimensions. This work examines many of these complex issues. Co-published with the Atlantic Council of the United States.
Author : Lawrence Rubin
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 162616603X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The End of Strategic Stability? written by Lawrence Rubin and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently. Today’s international system is further complicated by more nuclear powers, regional rivalries, and nonstate actors who punch above their weight, but the United States and other nuclear powers still cling to old conceptions of strategic stability. The purpose of this book is to unpack and examine how different states in different regions view strategic stability, the use or non-use of nuclear weapons, and whether or not strategic stability is still a prevailing concept. The contributors to this volume explore policies of current and potential nuclear powers including the United States, Russia, China, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. This volume makes an important contribution toward understanding how nuclear weapons will impact the international system in the twenty-first century and will be useful to students, scholars, and practitioners of nuclear weapons policy.
Author : Stephen J Cimbala
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000306224
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Technology, Strategy, And Politics Of Sdi written by Stephen J Cimbala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to develop a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system has both short-range and long-range risks as well as potential benefits. For the most part, however, strategic, technological, and political issues relevant to SDI have been analyzed in isolation from one another. This book provides a more inclusive framework for assessing the possible development and deployment of a BMD system by the United States or the Soviet Union. Contributors discuss the risks for arms race stability, probable reactions of the Soviet Union to any U.S. space-based defense system, and implications for the stability of extended deterrence commitments to NATO European allies. They also evaluate Soviet research and development programs in missile defense that must be considered in any extrapolation of the requirements for U.S. deterrence in the next several decades.
