National Missile Defense - Past as Prologue

Abstract

The U.S. is about to repeat history again with respect to development and or intermittent deployment of its fifth national missile defense system. While the world and national politico military strategic environment are undergoing continuous change, the relevance of the arguments against National Missile Defense deployment remain strong and will effectively delay or thwart employment of even a limited national missile defense. In short, it is deja' vu. Given the increasingly austere DoD budget and somewhat arbitrary Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty demarcation between theater and national missile defense systems (TMD and NMD), funds projected for NMD development would be better utilized in furthering increasingly capable TMD systems that ultimately become capable of NMD like missions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 1999
Accession Number
ADA363955

Entities

People

  • Daniel R. Kirby

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Early Warning Systems
  • Governments
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Munitions
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Nuclear Warheads
  • Strategic Defense Initiative
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges
  • Warheads
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Strategic Security Studies