Regional Ballistic Missile Defence Capabilities - September 2014

Security & Defence Agenda Next steps in missile defence SDA roundtable, 2012

Find the document published at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland here: https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/154318/MD_Draft%20Report_16102012.pdf My contribution to the nuclear debate presents 3 possible concepts for complexity evolution, which make understood that what is at a stake right now is the evolution of complexity. The use of missiles in any war scenario has very little, and if any, very bad effects on reality, which I strongly recommend to not to look for. The official results of the conference were published under the following document, which you can find at the ETH Zürich file archive: https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/154318/MD_Draft%20Report_16102012.pdf The official report does not resolve the dilemma that was discussed in Brussels. It reveals a one-sided and partial perspective and does not uncover the risks at which Europe was. The debate was more difficult than the report tells and the report fails to describe the Russian position as well as the reality of the debate. A real report cannot be published. I miss a peace perspective in the report.

This note discusses developments in missile defense technology and the prognosis for robust protection based on them. The competition between the offense and defense is unlikely to be settled by a stroke, and would not remain settled if it was, but current technologies and systems could significantly reduce the utility and attractiveness of missiles to rogues and would-be proliferators. The current program would serve as a first step in a continuing spiral of conflict between offenses and defenses. The appropriate goal is to put missile defenses so far ahead of offenses that they would dissuade others from engaging in missile competitions altogether, which is not beyond the capability of near term missile defenses that use all available layers and concepts.

Jurnal Dinamika Global

Asia-Pacific (now also known as Indo-Pacific) region has a highly complex geopolitics and strategic environment with the fact that some political confrontation and conflicts still remain unsolved within the region. One of important issues in the region also includes North Korea�s ballistic missiles program. This program has become a rapid growing threat for both regional and global security. The lack of accountability on the program and erratic leadership of Kim Jong-Un have also projected threats for the United States and its allies, including Japan. The alliance between Washington and Tokyo has been able to become a remarkable resilient security partnership and has served as the cornerstone for the region�s stability. Both countries have conducted many defense cooperation in several areas, including for ballistic missiles defense cooperation. As one of the forms of the ballistic missiles defense cooperation between Japan and the U.S., the Security Consultative Committee (SCC) as t...

2015

A chapter in Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective. The volume explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's overarching concept for American missile defense focuses on developing both a national system of limited ground-based defenses, located in Alaska and California, intended to counter limited intercontinental threats, and regionally-based missile defenses consisting of mobile ground-based technologies like the Patriot PAC-3 system, and sea-based Aegis-equipped destroyer and cruisers. The volume is intended to stimulate renewed debates in strategic studies and public policy circles over the contribution of regional and national missile defense to global security. Written from a range of perspectives by practitioners and academics, the book provides a rich source for understanding the technologies, history, diplomacy, and strategic implications of the gradual evolution of American missile defense plans. Experts and non-experts alike—whether needing to examine the offense-defense tradeoffs anew, to engage with a policy update, or to better understand the debate as it relates to a country or region—will find this book invaluable. While it opens the door to the debates, however, it does not find or offer easy solutions—because they do not exist.

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Developments in missile proliferation are analyzed, including the main drivers, trends, and actors. The increasing complexity of the global missile proliferation landscape is shown. They key areas of technological development are identified, as well as several types of missile proliferators, to substantiate the importance of missile proliferation in the context of international security. Existing and prospective mechanisms are discussed with respect to arms control, nonproliferation, and multilateral risk reduction measures. It is stressed that the existing mechanisms are aimed primarily at reducing the risks associated with creating delivery vehicles for weapons of mass destruction whereas the greatest importance is now attached to the potential use of conventionally armed missiles. It is proposed to concentrate efforts on “soft arms control” in order to lay a foundation for a gradual increase in controllability in the absence of real prospects for verifiable and intrusive multilat...

Polish Political Science, 2022

Due to the rapid development of technology after the Second World War, the way of conducting conflict has changed significantly. One of the branches of the armaments industry that has developed the most is space technology and related to it ballistic missiles. Undoubtedly, possession by international entity ballistic missile technology, especially in connection with weapons of mass destruction, increases the importance and role of this entity on the international arena. Therefore, the proliferation of this technology or ready-made missile systems has a significant impact on regional and international security. Therefore, in order to explain this phenomenon, the first part of the article describes the role of ballistic missiles for international security. In the second part, author describes varied ways how international actor, such a state or organization may come into possession of ballistic missiles and also the methods used to stop or limit proliferation i.e. counter-proliferation methods. The last part of this article describes the ways how selected examples states such us Egypt, People's Republic of China, Israel, India, North Korea, Iraq and South Africa have come into possession of ballistic missile technology. In connection with the above, it will be possible to show what proliferation of this kind of technology looked like and may look like in practice.

Romanian Military Thinking, 2023

The rapid exploitation of the scientific research results for military purposes, implementing them in new weapon systems, has become a key factor in the global power relationships. The possession of the nuclear weapon has a relevant contribution to maintaining the high-power status by placing the states having it in the first positions of global military power hierarchy. Emerging technologies, in this case the missile defence, have the capability to threaten or strengthen strategic stability. Missile defence represents a complex system of armaments that includes a variety of capabilities designed to protect different objectives against missile attacks in different ways. The integrated missile defence system (IMDS) entails tracking weapons/missiles to know their location during the travel trajectory, assessing the missile nature and capability, detecting (sensors, radarsearly warning), identifying (sensor-or procedure-based), selecting the type of response (rules of engagement), selecting the weapon system to engage the missile (air/ground based-tracking, weapons) and destroying the missile (lethality-tactics and weapons effectiveness). Low observability aircraftstealth/invisible and network-centred warfare are technologies affecting IMDS performance. The missile defence is largely determined by the improvement of the detection (radars), the assets of engagement (weapon range, tracking, sensor fusion, situational awareness) and the degree of destruction (tactics).

IEEE Spectrum, 1997

The Counterproliferation Papers Series was established by the USAF Counterproliferation Center to provide information and analysis to assist the understanding of the U.S. national security policy-makers and USAF officers to help them better prepare to counter the threat from weapons of mass destruction. Copies of No. 25 and previous papers in this series are available from the USAF Counterproliferation Center, 325 Chennault Circle, Maxwell AFB AL 36112-6427. The fax number is (334) 953-7530; phone (334) 953-7538.