Ballistic Missile Defence And Us National Security Policy

Author : Andrew Futter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136655371

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Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy by Andrew Futter Pdf

This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War. The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated. As this book shows, the debate and subsequent policy choices would often appear to reflect neither the particular requirements of the international system for US security at any given time, nor indeed the current capabilities of BMD technology. Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy traces the evolution of policy from the zero-sum debates that surrounded the Strategic Defense Initiative as Ronald Reagan left office, up to the relative political consensus that exists around a limited BMD deployment in 2012. The book shows how and why policy evolved in such a complex manner during this period, and explains the strategic reasoning and political pressures shaping BMD policy under each of the presidents who have held office since 1989. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates how relative advancements in technology, combined with growth in the perceived missile threat, gradually shifted the contours and rhythm of the domestic missile defence debate in the US towards acceptance and normalisation. This book will be of much interest to students of missile defence and arms control, US national security policy, strategic studies and international relations in general.

Author : Elinor Camille Sloan,Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité,Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 077352973X

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Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era by Elinor Camille Sloan,Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité,Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies Pdf

This book assesses Canadian security and defence requirements post September 11.

Author : Richard J. Samuels
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761929277

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Encyclopedia of United States National Security by Richard J. Samuels Pdf

Articles discuss issues related to the national security policies, from historical, economic, political, and technological viewpoints, covering treaties, developments in weaponry and warfare, and key figures in the field.

Author : Natalie Bormann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082662043

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National Missile Defense and the Politics of US Identity by Natalie Bormann Pdf

Why adopt a poststructural perspective when reading about the military strategy of national missile defence (NMD)? Certainly, when considering how best to defend the U.S. against attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles, the value of critical international relations theory may be easy to overlook. So, how might the insight of scholars such as Michel Foucault contribute to our understanding of the decision-making processes behind NMD policy? The deployment of national missile defence (NMD) is a sensitive political issue. Official justification for the significance of the NMD system is based upon strategic feasibility studies and conventional threat predictions guided by worst-case scenarios. However, this approach fails to address three key issues: the ambiguous and uncertain nature of the threat to which NMD responds; controversy over technological feasibility; and concern about cost. So, in light of these issues, why does NMD continue to stimulate such considerable interest and secure ongoing investment? Presented as an analysis of discourses on threats to national security -- around which the need for NMD deployment is predominately framed -- this book argues that the preferences underlying NMD deployment are driven by considerations beyond the scope of strategic approaches and issues. The conventional wisdom supporting NMD is contested using interpretive modes of inquiry provided by critical social theory and poststructuralism, and it is suggested that NMD strategy should be viewed in the context of U.S. national identity. This book seeks to establish a dialogue between the fields of critical international relations theory and U.S. foreign policy, by illustrating how the concept of national identity can be used to interpret contemporary military-strategic practice.

Author : Richard L. Kugler
Publisher : NDU Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780160890826

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New Directions in U.S. National Security; Strategy, Defense Plans, and Diplomacy by Richard L. Kugler Pdf

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price The U.S. Government has recently issued seven major studies that together put forth a comprehensive blueprint for major global changes in U.S. national security strategy, defense plans, and diplomacy. These seven studies are brought together in this illuminating book, which portrays their individual contents and complex interrelationships and evaluates their strengths and shortfalls. It argues that while these studies are well-written, cogently argued, and articulate many valuable innovations for the Department of Defense, Department of State, and other government agencies, all of them leave lingering, controversial issues that require further thinking and analysis as future U.S. national security policy evolves in a changing and dangerous world. For all readers, this book offers a quick, readable way to grasp and critique the many changes now sweeping over the new U.S. approach to global security affairs."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
ISBN : 9781428923324

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Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1410202860

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Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies by Office of Technology Assessment Pdf

President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative has kindled a national debate over the roles of strategic nuclear weapons, ballistic missile defenses, and arms control in U.S. national security policy. It has also underscored the important ramifications of U.S. military space policy.At the requests of the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congress undertook an assessment of the opportunities and risks involved in an accelerated program of research on new ballistic missile defense technologies, including those that might lead to deployment of weapons in space. Debate over the relevant political, military, and technical issues has been hotly contested by participants with widely varying assumptions and points of view. OTA has not attempted to resolve the debate, but rather to try to clarify the issues and enhance the level of discourse.This report examines both the "why" and the "what" of ballistic missile defenses. Why would we want ballistic missile defense weapons if we could have them? Would the advantages of deploying them outweigh the disadvantages? What technologies are under investigation for BMD applications? How might those applications serve our strategic goals? These policy and technology questions interact with one another in complex ways: what seems technologically possible conditions perceptions of policy options, while policy choices shape technological pursuits.

Author : Sten Rynning,Bertel Heurlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134234608

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Missile Defence by Sten Rynning,Bertel Heurlin Pdf

The missile defence policy of the US plays a crucial role in international affairs and is normally studied from a US perspective. This book is different, it delivers a sharp analysis of regional and national variations and integrates them with US viewpoints to present a rounded and comprehensive study. What will be the international ramifications of American plans to deploy a comprehensive national missile defence policy? This is a key question for all those wishing to build a sense of the global future and is here answered with clarity and rigour by expert contributors. This new study breaks the mould of traditional assessments that focus exclusively on the US world picture and are inevitably one-dimensional. Here we see that US action automatically entails reactions as this text advances a more balanced approach. By integrating a focus on US policy with a strong analysis of regional dynamics, it demonstrates that the global ramifications of US policy are indeed contingent upon distinct regional and national variations. These differences in turn have consequences both for the challenges the US faces in relation to missile defence and for the future of world politics. This is an innovative and groundbreaking study that contains lessons for those wishing to safeguard the future by becoming alert to its challenges and complexities.

Author : Russian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Joint Committee on Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309468916

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Regional Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability by Russian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Joint Committee on Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability Pdf

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 : David B H Denoon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429723650

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Ballistic Missile Defense In The Post-cold War Era by David B H Denoon Pdf

With the end of the Cold War and the visibility of U.S. Patriot missile defenses during the 1991 Gulf War, the cost and benefits of ballistic missile defense systems (BMD) need to be re-evaluated. In this detailed and balanced study, David Denoon assesses new types of short-range and intercontinental missile defenses. In the post Cold War era, two fundamental changes have made missile defense for the United States and its military forces more compelling: The United States and Russia no longer see each other as direct threats and there has been a dramatic proliferation of ballistic missile capability in the Third World. Consequently, U.S. forces deployed overseas are more likely to be at risk and, eventually, the United States itself could become vulnerable to missile threats. With these changes in mind, David Denoon analyzes the current BMD dilemma, arguing that active defenses against missiles should be seen as a form of insurance against catastrophe. He assesses the likelihood of missile attacks and the appropriate level of investment for the United States to defend against such attacks. The book provides an assessment of deterrence and the performance of the Patriot missiles during the 1991 Gulf War, critiques the Strategic Defense Initiative, and analyzes the prospects for new types of short-range and intercontinental missile defenses.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111234089

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U.S. National Missile Defense Policy and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Harvey M. Sapolsky,Associate Professor of Political Science University of Notre Dame Eugene Gholz,Eugene Gholz,Caitlin Talmadge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135980375

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US Defense Politics by Harvey M. Sapolsky,Associate Professor of Political Science University of Notre Dame Eugene Gholz,Eugene Gholz,Caitlin Talmadge Pdf

This new textbook seeks to explain how US defense and national security policy is formulated and conducted. The focus is on the role of the President, Congress, political partisans, defense industries, lobbies, science, the media, and interest groups, including the military itself, in shaping policies. It examines the following key themes: US grand strategy; who joins America's military; how and why weapons are bought; the management of defense; public attitudes toward the military and casualties; the roles of the President and the Congress in controlling the military; the effects of 9/11 on security policy, homeland security, government reorganizations, and intra- and inter-service relations. The book shows how political and organizational interests determine US defense policy, and warns against the introduction of centralising reforms. In emphasizing the process of defense policy-making, rather than just the outcomes of that process, this book signals a departure from the style of many existing textbooks.

Author : Ashton B. Carter,David N. Schwartz
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815705765

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Ballistic Missile Defense by Ashton B. Carter,David N. Schwartz Pdf

Defense against nuclear attack—so natural and seemingly so compelling a goal—has provoked debate for at least twenty years. Ballistic missle defense systems, formerly called antiballistic missile systems, offer the prospect of remedying both superpowers' alarming vulnerability to nuclear weapons by technological rather than political means. But whether ballistic missile defenses can be made to work and whether it is wise to build them remain controversial. The U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 restricts testing and deployment of ballistic missile defenses but has not prohibited more than a decade of research and development on both sides. As exotic new proposals are put forward for space-based directed-energy systems, questions about the effectiveness and wisdom of missile defense have again become central to the national debate on defense policy. This study, jointly sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examines the strategic, technological, and political issues raised by ballistic missile defense. Eight contributors take an analytical approach to their areas of expertise, which include the relationship of missile defense to nuclear strategy, the nature and potential applications of current and future technologies, the views on missile defense in the Soviet Union and among the smaller nuclear powers, the meaning of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty for today's technology, and the present role and historical legacy of ballistic missile defense in the context of East-West relations. The volume editors give a comprehensive introduction to this wide range of subjects and an assessment of future prospects. In the final chapter, nine knowledgeable observers offer their varied personal views on the ballistic missile defense question.

Author : Joseph I. Coffey
Publisher : [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002230186

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Strategic Power and National Security by Joseph I. Coffey Pdf

In this closely reasoned and lucid analysis, an important thinker on American strategy surveys weapons technology and its military and political implications for the 1970s. J. I. Coffey refutes the argument that American national security requires “superior” strategic offensive forces or extensive air and missile defenses. In so doing he assesses in simple terms the various factors involved in this complex and difficult subject. While many books on strategy deal only with a single area or a particular weapons system, this work synthesizes technical and non-technical considerations across the whole range of national security issues affected by strategic power-war-fighting, deterrence, Communist behavior, alliance relationships, nuclear proliferation, and arms control. Its orderly and authoritative marshaling of tabulated data, its citations from Department of Defense documents and congressional hearings, and its classifications of the alternative options which strategy makers can now pursue, are all invaluable to both the student of national security and the professional strategist.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
ISBN : PSU:000043000791

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Findings and Conclusions of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security Pdf