Political Considerations in Developing Measures of Effectiveness for Strategic Defense.

Abstract

This thesis develops a Measure of Effectiveness (MOE) for strategic defenses from open source political literature. First, an examination of the doctrines and strategic nuclear force structures of the United States and the Soviet Union is conducted to illuminate the primary challenges to the U.S. system of strategic defense for the protection of U.S. retaliatory nuclear forces (counterforce enhancement) is addressed. Third, the degree of effectiveness which a counterforce enhancing system of strategic defense must meet is established through the definition of minimal retaliatory assets required to effect U.S. targeting plans. Finally, the conclusions and findings of this research are presented in a summary chapter. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA168445

Entities

People

  • Robert J. Cerwonka

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anti-Ballistic Missiles
  • Attrition
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Civil Defense
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Deterrence
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Force Structure
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • National Security
  • Order Of Battle
  • Reliability
  • Rockets
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • Ussr
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Strategic Security Studies