The Cruise Missile and the Strategic Balance

Abstract

The phenomenal growth of Soviet military power over the past two decades and concurrent perceptions of a decline in the ability of the United States to exercise the degree of influence on world events it did during the immediate postwar era have generated concerns over the worldwide balance of power. The continued qualitative improvements in Soviet ICBM forces, coupled with the quantitative edge offered the USSR through SALT I, seem to presage an imminent increase in the vulnerability of current generation US Ballistic missile and bomber forces and threaten to undermine the basis upon which US- USSR strategic stability has come to rest.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 10, 1978
Accession Number
ADA054370

Entities

People

  • Robert T. Kennedy

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agreements
  • Air Launched
  • Aircrafts
  • Arms Control
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Cold War
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • National Security
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Sea Control
  • Sea Launched
  • Strategic Weapons
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Economics
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Strategic Security Studies