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BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Ballistic missile proliferation is a significant concern in the Middle East. Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan have closely associated themselves with the United States. These nations are targets of American adversaries such as Iran, Syria, and terrorist groups. Findings of this study revealed the …
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Ballistic Missile Defense in the Post-Cold War Era
The proliferation of ballistic missiles has considerably increased in the past decade, and it is highly likely that the United States will face a direct threat from new ballistic missile countries by the turn of the century. Unlike the recent National Intelligence Estimate this does not neglect the …
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Creating an Integrated Ballistic Missile Defense System for the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
… and importance of creating an integrated missile defense system for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries. With its ballistic missiles, Iran is capable of targeting, major American military installations in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Oman. Vital oil refineries, ports, …
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Ballistic Missile Defense: A History and Reevaluation of Missile Defense in the United States
… by the United States to develop and deploy ballistic missile defense are nothing new. Under the context of Mutually Assured Destruction and the Cold War, a "limited” missile defense was proposed. Given technological and political shortfalls, the deployment of a "limited” missile defense was …
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A Preliminary Design of Two Nuclear Energy Systems for Emergency On-Site Power Generation at Ballistic Missile Defense Installation
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Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense: an Overview of Major Programs and Issues of the Abm Debate Over the Past Forty-Five Years
… States has debated whether or not to deploy defenses against ballistic missile attack. In that time the United States grappled with a wide range of issues concerning the technical, strategic, political, and arms control merits of missile defense in the face of the Cold War, and now the …
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Space-Based Missile Defense: The Past, the Present, the Future
… thesis analyzes the current state of the U.S. ballistic missile defense program, explains the history behind limitations on the program, examines and how these limitations have prevented the United States from exploiting space in order to develop the most effective and feasible missile defense …
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Satellite constellation design for mid-course ballistic missile intercept
… of constellations for satellite-based mid-course missile defense. The ballistic missile intercept problem leads to a new paradigm of coverage where interceptor "reachability" replaces line-of-sight coverage. Interceptors in this concept are limited in their time of flight and AV capabilities. …
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Ballistic missile tracking using the interacting multiple model joint probabilistic data association filter
… of interceptors used by the United States ballistic missile defense program is jeopardized by the use of hostile missile decoy deployment and evasive maneuvers. The ability to discriminate between legitimate threats and decoys is a crucial requirement for interceptor algorithms. The …
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America's Provocative Weakness: the U.S. Policy of Vulnerability to Ballistic Missile Attack
Ballistic missile attack presents one of the most dangerous and troubling threats to the United States' national security today. For many nations that may wish to threaten the United States, ballistic missiles provide an affordable, readily accessible, and reliable delivery system for payloads …
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Japan's Defense and Foreign Policy Strategy in the Post Cold War World
… This thesis begins with a summary of Japan's defense and foreign policy since 1947, examining U.S.-Japan relations, Japan's nuclear weapons policy, and the Self-Defense Forces. The thesis also analyzes the potential threats Japan faces from North Korea, China, Russia and strategic cooperation …
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U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: a Post-Soviet Reappraisal
… challenges has traditionally subordinated ballistic missile defense to nuclear deterrence. Recent U.S. nuclear policy has continued this tradition. However, in addition to a continuing prohibition on a national missile defense, the capability and credibility of the U.S. nuclear deterrent …
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United States Military Preparedness
In the past decade defense budgets have fallen to levels that now jeopardize the preparedness of the United States armed forces for combat. This thesis examines the nature, criteria, and inadequacies of America's military preparedness. In examining military preparedness, the thesis has found that …
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The cornered bear : the August 2008 war in Georgia as the culmination of Russia’s western security dilemma
… extra-U.N. military aggression, and Western anti-ballistic missile defense initiatives and programs. Western actions relating to these three spheres created the conditions for the war, and specifics within the Caucasus region and relating to separatist conflicts drove Russia to deem a war with …
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A Goliath and David Partnership: U.S.-Israel Missile Defense Collaboration from 1983 to 2016
Ballistic missiles and projectiles such as rockets provide the threat of large-scale damage to not only military but also civilian targets, with potentially high casualties. This technology was widely proliferated during the Cold War era, and many countries continue to develop ballistic technology …
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Ballistic Missile and Insurgency Threats to Israel: Effects on Security Posture and Implications For Nuclear Weapons
… and the augmenting of Arab arsenals with ballistic missiles armed with nuclear, biological, and chemical warheads could tip the scales of the Middle East security equation in favor of Israel's adversaries. The aggregate effects of Palestine Liberation Organization, Hamas, and Hizballah …
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A Conceptual Framework for Analysis of System Safety Interoperability of United States Navy's Combat Systems
… Safety Critical Data. SSIF is applied to AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense 3.0 Program to explore and analyze the safety interoperability issues in the overall system, by which the SSIF is further validated as an effective approach in analyzing the safe interoperability capability in Navy's combat …
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Human-automation collaboration in occluded trajectory smoothing
… if and what objects should be engaged in a Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) scenario involves a number of complex issues. The system is large and the timelines may be on the order of a few minutes, which drives designers to highly automate these systems. On the other hand, the …
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Japanese Theater Missile Defense: Impact on North East Asia
… value of Japan and its possible role within a missile defense architecture. At the end of the Cold War the United States and Japan reevaluated their alliance. Growing regional threats, specifically a long-term threat from China, and more immediately, North Korea emerged. The White House urged …
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On Geopolitically Tailoring Missile Defense
… threats of the 21st century is a possible ballistic missile attack. Whether it is armed conventionally or with a weapon of mass destruction, a ballistic missile attack on the U.S. would have a horrific outcome. To counter this, threat the U.S. has been researching and developing missile …
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