US Missile Defense in the Age of Everything
US Missile Defense in the Age of Everything

Author: Stefan Soesanto

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13:

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Over the last 15 years, the US ballistic missile defense system (US BMDS) has developed into a cornerstone of US alliance policies in the Asia-Pacific. However, given the long-term budgetary horizon and fiscal constraints resulting from sequestration, the Department of Defense was tasked to conduct a comprehensive review of US missile defense programs and capabilities, in an effort to develop a more cost-effective and sustainable ballistic missile defense strategy. This study aims to contribute to the DoD's review with particular focus on the challenges, opportunities, and recommendations for the Asia-Pacific theater. In specific the study is geared to answer four distinct questions: (1) What are the strategic and tactical objectives of the US BMDS in the Asia-Pacific? (2) How does BMDS fit into the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) 2020 vision? (3) What role can regional US allies play in the context of IAMD? (4) How will IAMD influence the strategic balance in the Asia-Pacific? The study is organized into three chapters, each with its own policy recommendations. Chapter one sets the overall context for ballistic missile defense (BMD) in the Asia-Pacific by synthesizing the BMD capabilities of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia, with a specific focus on the tactical objectives of forward-based US BMD elements. Chapter two assesses the strategic goals of the US BMDS in the Asia-Pacific, in relation to: (1) alliance reassurance, (2) strategic and regional stability, (3) deterrence, and (4) left- and right-of-launch missile defense options. Chapter three shifts to the concept of IAMD by focusing on defensive counter-air operations that are not part of the BMD threat portfolio, such as cruise missile defense (CMD), counter-unmanned aerial systems (CUAS), and counter-rockets, artillery, and mortar (C-RAM). The study concludes with final thoughts and summarizes answers to the four overarching questions.

Missile Defense
Missile Defense

Author: Steven A. Hildreth

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781590339732

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The United States has pursued missile defenses since the dawn of the missile age shortly after World War II. The development and deployment of missile defenses has not only been elusive, but has proven to be one of the most divisive issues of the past generation. The Bush Administration substantially altered the debate over missile defenses. The Administration requested significant funding increases for missile defense programs, eliminated the distinction between national and theater missile defense, restructured the missile defense program to focus more directly on developing deployment options for a "layered" capability to intercept missiles aimed at U.S. territory across the whole spectrum of their flight path, adopted a new, untried development and acquisition strategy, announced U.S. withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty, and is deploying an initial national missile defense capability. Critics, however, take issue with assertions that the threat is increasing, citing evidence that the number of nations seeking or possessing nuclear weapons has actually declined over the past twenty years. Moreover, they argue that the technology for effective missile defense remains immature, that deployment is provocative to allies, friends, and adversaries, and it is a budget-buster that reduces the availability of funds to modernize and operate U.S. conventional military forces. They argue especially that some major powers view U.S. missile defense as an attempt at strategic domination and that other, such as China, will expand their missile capabilities in response.

National Missile Defense
National Missile Defense

Author: Erin V. Causewell

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781590332474

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Missiles came of age after World War II and the United States has pursued missile defences ever since. The issue has turned out to be one of the most divisive of the past generation taking into account the Russian position and their threat or perceived threat and the technical difficulties of actually implementing any missile defence. The Bush Administration claims that for the first time an effective missile defence is technically possible and that the threat of weapons of mass destruction has spread to many nations and groups other that Russia. The two factors, according to them, make missile defence an urgent priority justifying the breaking of the widely-revered ABM Treaties. Their argument rests partially on a bet that the Russians have now fallen so far behind since the Yeltsin government took over that they cannot keep up technologically. Although terrorism groups will not be deterred by the missile defence being planned, countries like China, North Korea etc., might well be. This book frames the current debate and also presents the legal considerations for withdrawal from the ABM Treaties.

Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective
Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective

Author: Catherine McArdle Kelleher

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2015-09-23

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0804796564

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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.

National Missile Defence and the politics of US identity
National Missile Defence and the politics of US identity

Author: Natalie Bormann

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1847796702

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Why adopt a poststructural lens for the reading of the military strategy of national missile defence (NMD)? No doubt, when contemplating an attack on US territory by intercontinental ballistic missiles, consulting Michel Foucault and critical international relations theory scholars may not seem the obvious route to take. The answer to this lies in another question: why has there been so much interest and continuous investment in NMD deployment when there is such ambiguity surrounding the status of threat to which it responds, controversy over its technological feasibility and concern about its cost? Posed in this manner, the question cannot be answered on its own terms – the terms given in official accounts of NMD that justify the system’s significance on the basis of strategic feasibility studies and conventional threat predictions guided by worst-case scenarios. Instead, this book argues that the preferences leading to NMD deployment must be understood as satisfying requirements beyond strategic approaches and issues. In turning towards the interpretative modes of inquiry provided by critical social theory and poststructuralism, this book contests the conventional wisdom about NMD and suggests reading the strategy in terms of US identity. Presented as an analysis of discourses on threats to national security, around which the need for NMD deployment is predominantly framed, this book is an effort to let the two fields of critical international relations theory and US foreign policy speak directly to each other. It seeks to do so by showing how the concept of identity can be harnessed to an analysis of a contemporary military-strategic practice.

Seize the High Ground
Seize the High Ground

Author: James Walker

Publisher:

Published: 2005-10-01

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9781422300718

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As the Army's newest major command, one might assume that the U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) would not have a significant historical record. However, USASMDC & its predecessor organizations have spent many decades (since 1957) focusing on issues & experiments with missile defense, space-based communications, & sensor technologies. This updated vol. provides the history of the U.S. Army's activities in space & missile defense. It builds upon the material presented in Strategic Defense: Four Decades of Progress,Ó published by the USASMDC Historical Office in 1995. Includes an Intro. by Joseph M. Cosumano, Jr., Lt. Gen., U.S. Army, Commanding. Color illustrations.

Defending America
Defending America

Author: James M. Lindsay

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780815706335

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This volume is a critique of the standard positions and hyperboles of both advocates and opponents of the Limited National Missile Defense System. It is also a primer on the types, advantages and limitations of various systems and architectures.

Missile Defense
Missile Defense

Author: Steven A. Hildreth

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13:

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The University of Wisconsin features information about the realities of a missile defense system for the United States, as part of the Why Files resource. Why Files uses news and current events to explore science and the issues it raises. The content is associated with specific National Science Education standards and offers links to related sites.

Contemporary Nuclear Debates
Contemporary Nuclear Debates

Author: Alexander T. Lennon

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780262621663

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Discussions of key domestic and international aspects of missile defense, arms control, and arms races.