Download or read book Report to the Congress on the Strategic Defense Initiative written by Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Strategic Defense Initiative written by Edward Reiss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the Strategic Defense Initiative ranges across politics, economics, strategic studies and international relations, and provides the latest research into the SDI interest groups, the distribution of contracts, and the politics of influence. It discusses the wider contexts of 'Star Wars', such as alliance management, marketing, and domestic politics, and its military spin-offs, especially for anti-satellite (ASAT) and 'space control' programmes. The author tests the theoretical literature on the dynamics of the arms race by using SDI as a case study, and draws evidence from sources such as congressional hearings, interviews, the trade press, restricted briefing papers, and documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act. The book follows the fortunes of strategic defence into the changed global conditions of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the Gulf War, and President Bush's announcement of a refocused SDI, the Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS).

Download or read book Defense Against Nuclear Weapons written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Shield in Space written by Sanford Lakoff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Download or read book The Last Frontier written by Gary L. Guertner and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Perspectives On Strategic Defense written by Steven W Guerrier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together proponents and opponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative, this book includes original essays by leading experts on every aspect of the issue. The collection provides a valuable introduction to the many complex questions involved in any serious consideration of the SDI. The contributors explore such issues as the strategic impl

Download or read book Continental Air Defense written by Arthur Charo and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1990 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strategic Defense Initiative intensified study of defending America against nuclear missile attack, but even a perfect SDI would leave North America open to attack from bombers and cruise missiles. The neglected topic of continental air defense was the focus of a conference held at the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. This comprehensive occasional paper by physicist and CSIA fellow Arthur Charo, which grew out of the conference, lays out the technological prospects and problems for air defense in a manner accessible to expert and layperson alike. Co-published with the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.

Download or read book Air Defense Artillery written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air Defense Initiative written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategic Defense in the 21st Century written by Hans Binnendijk and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Archie to SAM written by Air University Press and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archie to SAM is an update in 2005 to Kenneth Werrell's Archie, Flak, AAA, and SAM. He continues to study ground-based air defense systems in new events, including the Gulf War. In rescuing ground-based air defense systems from long neglect, Werrell delves into such topics as tactics, leadership, change, and innovation. Dr. Kenneth Werrell's history of ground-based air defense performs an important service both to scholarship and, more importantly, to the defense of our nation's freedom. It is perhaps human nature that we tend over time to lose sight of the lessons of the past, especially when they do not conform to certain cherished preconceptions of ours. That such myopia can be dangerous, if not downright disastrous, Dr. Werrell's study richly illustrates. Without sentimentalism, he chronicles a pattern of lessons learned and too quickly forgotten as the marvel of air power was reminded again and again of its limitations and vulnerability. In Korea and in Vietnam, the American people were stripped of their illusions of national and technical omnipotence. The unhappy outcome of those two conflicts was doubly lamentable because the lessons of World War II were--or should have been--fresh in our minds. In that world war, as Dr. Werrell shows, relatively cheap ground-based air defense did make a difference: at Ploesti, at Antwerp, and at the Rhine bridges.And it will make a difference tomorrow. The greatest value of Dr. Werrell's work is that it provides guideposts and guidance for us as professional soldiers and aviators charged with upholding American security. We have taken history's lessons to heart as we plan and program our ground-based air defenses into the next decade and beyond. In both the forward and the rear areas, we have emphasized the time-honored principles of mass, mix, and mobility. No one weapon, not even today's modern aircraft, can do the job alone. The truism applies with particular force to antiaircraft defense. And at least one other truism emerges from Dr. Werrell's and our own studies: effective air defense requires a joint and combined effort. Our planning has been predicated on the assumption that counterair will play a central role in safeguarding our ground forces from air attack. On the ground, the air defense artillery will count on the cooperation and assistance of our colleagues in the infantry, armor, and field artillery. On our success or failure in working together to meet the challenges of tomorrow will rest our nation's future.Contents * Foreword * PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION * PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION * Chapter 1 * ANTIAIRCRAFT DEFENSE THROUGH WORLD WAR II * British Antiaircraft Artillery * The V-1 Campaign * American Antiaircraft Artillery * German Flak * Allied Countermeasures * Fratricide * The US Navy in the Pacific * Japanese Antiaircraft Artillery * The Lessons of World War II * Notes * Chapter 2 * FROM GUNS TO MISSILES, 1945-1965 * Antiaircraft Returns to Combat: * The Korean War * Antiaircraft Missiles * Notes * Chapter 3 * AIRMEN VERSUS GUERRILLAS: VIETNAM * French Operations * America Enters the War * SAMs Join the Fight * American Air Operations through Linebacker I * Linebacker II * Conclusions * Notes * Chapter 4 * OPERATIONS BETWEEN VIETNAM AND THE PERSIAN GULF * Arab-Israeli Wars: 1948, 1956, 1967-1973 * The 1973 War * Combat since 1973: Bekaa Valley * American Air Strikes in the Middle East, 1983-1986 * Indo-Pakistani War * The Falkland Islands/Malvinas War, 1982 * Other Actions in the 1980s * Summary * Notes * Chapter 5 * BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE: THE EARLY YEARS TO 1991 * Army Development * The Kennedy Administration * Ballistic Missile Defense: Rebirth * The Strategic Defense Initiative: Star Wars * The Gulf War: Patriot versus Scud * The Patriot * Patriot in Action * Notes * Chapter 6 * GROUND-BASED AIR DEFENSE SINCE 1990: THE GULF, THE BALKANS, AND AFGHANISTAN * War in the Persian Gulf: * Air Defense since 1991: Iraq, Balkans, and Afghanistan

Download or read book The Strategic Defense Initiative written by Harold Brown and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1987-09-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soviet Strategic Defense Programs written by United States. Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amerikansk populær fremstilling af USSRs planer og tiltag på det strategiske forsvars område, herunder udbygning af Anti Ballistisk Missil (ABM) systemet og Anti Satellit (ASAT) systemet. Modtaget fra USIS.

Download or read book Missile Defense and Defeat written by Thomas Karako and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 mandates a review of missile defeat policy, strategy, and capability to be completed by January 2018. This upcoming Missile Defeat Review (MDR) represents an opportunity for the Trump administration to articulate a vision for the future of air and missile defense. This collection of expert essays explores how the strategic environment for missile defense and defeat has evolved since 2010 and offers recommendations to help guide and inform the MDR’s development.

Download or read book Fortress USSR The Soviet Strategic Defense Initiative and the U S Strategic Defense Response written by William R. Van Cleave and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The FY Department of Defense Program for Research Development and Acquisition written by United States. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seize the High Ground written by James A. Walker and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2003 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.