"Heads, not tails" : how best to engage theater ballistic missiles

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"Heads, not tails" : how best to engage theater ballistic missiles

Title remainder

how best to engage theater ballistic missiles

Statement of responsibility

by Ronald C. Wiegand

Creator

• Wiegand, Ronald C

Contributor

• Air University (U.S.), Center for Strategy and Technology

Subject

• Ballistic missile defenses -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

Defending against theater and intercontinental ballistic missiles, potentially carrying nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, requires 100% effectiveness anything less continues to afford our enemies weapons of mass effect. If the U.S. is to be successful in answering this threat, a re-evaluation of boost phase intercept (BPI) options is in order. This paper highlights the ballistic missile threat and joint defense systems; provides an assessment of those systems; re-evaluates BPI merits; and proposes a kinetic boost phase solution (with concept of operations) to bridge the potential fielding of space-base weapons. Early engagement provides better, faster, cheaper and less destabilizing missile defense capability. Heads, not tails sounds a call to the Missile Defense Agency, Strategic Command and all Services to commit to producing BPI capability (first kinetic, then directed energy), ahead of other systems and upgrades

Member of

• Occasional paper (Air University (U.S.). Center for Strategy and Technology), no. 53

Cataloging source

DTICE

Government publication

federal national government publication

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Occasional paper

Series volume

no. 53