Strategic Implications of Space-Based Lasers.

Abstract

The incipient technology available for space-based lasers and the missions they could accomplish may change the nature of strategic competition and the perceptions of the strategic balance, particularly when that technology is integrated with other uses of space. This and other proposed uses of space for active military purposes requires an understanding of the strategic/political contexts of space as well as the essential legal or technical approaches to it that have been prevalent in Washington to date.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA340436

Entities

People

  • D. Goure
  • J. Combemale
  • Justin T. Cooper
  • M. Vlahos
  • T. Blau

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Arms Control
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Civil Defense
  • Conventional Warfare
  • Deployment
  • Ground Based
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Strategy
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Reconnaissance Satellites
  • Space Based
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space