Regional Ballistic Missile Defense In The Context Of Strategic Stability

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 : 46,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
ISBN : 0309468922

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Regional Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability by Anonim 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--Publisher's description

Author : Elbridge A. Colby,Michael S. Gerson
Publisher : Army War College Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000146024843

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Strategic Stability by Elbridge A. Colby,Michael S. Gerson Pdf

What is strategic stability and why is it important? This edited collection offers the most current authoritative survey of this topic, which is central to U.S. strategy in the field of nuclear weapons and great power relations. A variety of authors, leading experts in the field of strategic issues and regional studies, offer both theoretical and practical insights into the basic concepts associated with strategic stability, what implications these have for the United States as well as key regions such as the Middle East, and perspectives on strategic stability in Russia and China. Readers will develop a deeper and more developed understanding of this concent from this engaging and informative work.

Author : Dean A. Wilkening
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136063329

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Ballistic-Missile Defence and Strategic Stability by Dean A. Wilkening Pdf

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 : Lawrence Rubin,Adam N. Stulberg
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626166042

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The End of Strategic Stability? by Lawrence Rubin,Adam N. Stulberg Pdf

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 : Ashton B. Carter,David N. Schwartz
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Steven A. Hildreth
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437934496

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Ballistic Missile Defense and Offensive Arms Reductions by Steven A. Hildreth Pdf

Ballistic missile defenses (BMD) have been an issue in U.S.-Soviet and U.S.-Russian arms control talks since the 1970s. During the Cold War, the nations sought to balance limits on offensive weapons and defensive weapons so that they could maintain ¿strategic stability,¿ which refers to the ability of each side to launch a retaliatory strike after absorbing a first strike by the other side. Contents of this report: (1) Intro.; (2) Strategic Stability and the Relationship Between Offensive and Defensive Forces; (3) BMD and the 1991 START Treaty: The Negotiating Framework; START Ratification; Resolving Competing Priorities; BMD Programs and Budgets; BMD in the 1980s, and 1990s; Current BMD Plans and Programs; (4) BMD Budgets Over Time.

Author : Sten Rynning,Bertel Heurlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Catherine McArdle Kelleher,Peter Dombrowski
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804796569

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Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective by Catherine McArdle Kelleher,Peter Dombrowski Pdf

Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's overarching concept for American missile defense focuses on developing both a national system of limited ground-based defenses, located in Alaska and California, intended to counter limited intercontinental threats, and regionally-based missile defenses consisting of mobile ground-based technologies like the Patriot PAC-3 system, and sea-based Aegis-equipped destroyer and cruisers. The volume is intended to stimulate renewed debates in strategic studies and public policy circles over the contribution of regional and national missile defense to global security. Written from a range of perspectives by practitioners and academics, the book provides a rich source for understanding the technologies, history, diplomacy, and strategic implications of the gradual evolution of American missile defense plans. Experts and non-experts alike—whether needing to examine the offense-defense tradeoffs anew, to engage with a policy update, or to better understand the debate as it relates to a country or region—will find this book invaluable. While it opens the door to the debates, however, it does not find or offer easy solutions—because they do not exist.

Author : Anand Sharma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
ISBN : 9380502311

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Ballistic Missile Defence by Anand Sharma Pdf

Since World War II, the ever improving sophistication in missiles capabilities in terms of payload, range, accuracy etc. had led to an unprecedented and unending arms race and proliferation. The obvious and connatural unificationof ballistic missile and nuclear bomb shaped it as the most high profile weapon system that has dominated the worldpolitics and security paradigm so intricately. With the new perception of deterrence and threat, the warfare has taken a new dimension.Concurrently; Ballistic Missile Defence as a concept evolved during 1960s. However, the two superpowers deploying thousands of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) remained effective stability tool during Cold War and development of missile defences were restricted through the regime of arms control treaties as in the perception of the bipolar world, Anti Ballistic Missile Systems will weaken the stability stratagem anchored on policyof Mutual Assured Destruction. Nevertheless, development of BMD system continued and remained one of the most controversial issues in the world politics and international security paradigm. Ballistic missile defence, from its concept has grown manifold. Initially, missile defences have been put into operation centred on destroying the launch platform through ground based nuclear tipped ballistic missile system. With increased sophistication in missile technology, the challenge is thrown to intercept an incoming ballistic missile in its boost phase, mid course phase or in terminal phase. Notwithstanding, there are many technological constraints to arrive at a desired comprehensive shield to provide effective and efficient security. A debate followed world over on efficacy and viability of such a defensive shield as the technology is yet to be proven and that is prohibitively costly. The debate also brings forward the environmental issues, weaponisation of space and lethality of missile defence against its counter measures and issues of proliferation and arms control. Despite all such criticism and debates over its viability, the urgency towards evelopment and deployment world over is alarming. With the phenomenal technological sophistication and growth, missile defence has acquired the status of a frontier of the 21st century, impacting global strategic stability as well as arms control. This book is an attempt to study the ballistic missile defence concepts, systems, technologies and its growing influence as a revolutionary military system and a strategic political tool. This study posits various strategic issuesin context to implications of missile defence development and deployment.

Author : Hans Binnendijk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : PURD:32754004382119

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Strategic Defense in the 21st Century by Hans Binnendijk Pdf

Author : Andrew Scobell,Larry M. Wortzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ballistic missiles
ISBN : UCSD:31822032711640

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China's Growing Military Power by Andrew Scobell,Larry M. Wortzel Pdf

This volume, comprised of papers originally presented at a conference held at Carlisle Barracks in September 2001, helps to put the Hainan Island incident in the broader context of China's strategic aspirations and its growing military capabilities. This conference's co-sponsors were the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the U.S. Army War College. For the fourth consecutive year, the War College's Strategic Studies Institute is publishing the proceedings. The nine chapters in this volume, all written by leading experts, cover a diverse set of important topics: East Asian perspectives on China's security ambitions, the status of the Chinese ballistic missile program and regional reactions to U.S. missile defense initiatives, and China's ever-improving conventional military capabilities.

Author : Stephen J Cimbala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000306224

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The Technology, Strategy, And Politics Of Sdi by Stephen J Cimbala Pdf

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.

Author : K. R. Gupta
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
ISBN : 8126900490

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World Viewpoints on National Missile Defence by K. R. Gupta Pdf

Statement Of President George W. Bush Regarding His Intention To Introduce National Missile Defence (Nmd) Has Given Rise To A Lively Discussion On The Subject All Over The World. In This Book An Attempt Has Been Made To Present The Viewpoints Of Eminent Experts From Different Countries, Particularly Those From Countries Directly Affected By The Nmd E.G. The United States Of America, Russia, China, The United Kingdom, North Korea, India, Etc.It Is Hoped That The Book Would Be Of Great Value To The Researchers And Students Of Defence Studies, Parliamentarians, Senior Executives Concerned With Defence And The Common Readers.

Author : David S. McDonough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415427340

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Nuclear Superiority by David S. McDonough Pdf

Providing a historical context to US nuclear strategy modifications, this paper details how the new triad is founded on previous efforts to secure nuclear superiority against the Soviet Union and counter-proliferation capabilities against WMD-proliferant adversaries.