Russian security requirements and the U.S. limited national missile defense system: Is accommodation possible?

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Chkanikov ◽  
Andrei Shoumikhin
Keyword(s):  
Security Requirements ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
National Missile Defense ◽  
The U.S

The Nuclear Obsession: V. The “Stately Minuet” of the A.B.M. Debate

Worldview ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Jack Walker
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
National Elections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ballistic Missile Defense ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The U.S

The currently emerging debate on the desirability of the U.S. undertaking to deploy an anti-ballistic missile defense system (A.B.M.) threatens to become the next national defense issue to have an impact on national elections. In the past we have all become familiar with real or alleged “bomber gaps,” “missile gaps,” and “conventional gaps.” The basis for all these “gaps” was a deep fear that potential enemies would subject ns to nuclear blackmail, or that our own failure to develop other kinds of military forces would require us to respond to any emergency with an all-out nuclear attack.In an earlier essay, I pointed out how our obsession with nuclear war had encouraged us to discount the significance of conventional war. I want now to turn to an examination of how specific groups in the U.S. have changed their positions in recent years on the subject of defensive weapons. In doing so I have borrowed the term used in 1960 by Henry Kissinger to describe the shifting arguments of the Air Force and Navy.

Seeking New World Vistas: The Militarization of Space. By Roger Handberg. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 304p. $62.50.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 258-259
Author(s):  
Larry Martinez
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Monday Morning ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Industrial Complexes ◽  
National Missile Defense ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Policy Vision

Space is a seductive place, where technology-induced vistas often blur the policy vision of earthbound military planners, scientific explorers, or commercial entrepreneurs. This is the message that beams down from Roger Handberg's book on space militarization. He leads the reader through the twists and turns of technology, law, and policy, through the bureau- cratic labyrinth of the U.S. military and space industrial complexes. In the end, one is faced with the same imponder- ables that confronted President Clinton in deciding whether to deploy the National Missile Defense (NMD) system. Like an astute player on fourth down, he punted that space football to his successor, and the Handberg volume gives you the Monday morning quarterback advantage.

scholarly journals EUROPEAN MISSILE DEFENSE AS A NEW FORM OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF USA ON MISSILE DEFENSE

2013 ◽  
pp. 120-126
Author(s):  
E. A. Degtereva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intermediate Step ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Adaptive Approach ◽  
Defense Systems ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Ballistic Missile Defense ◽  
The U.S

This article examines U.S. efforts to build a broad international coalition in the area of missile defense. The basic formats of military cooperation with foreign countries in the deployment of the U.S. global missile defense system are described, as well as the principles of cooperation on the part of the United States. A review of the regional missile defense systems created by the United States as an intermediate step on the way to a global missile defense system is provided. Particular emphasis is placed on the implementation of The Phased Adaptive Approach for Missile Defense in Europe (European Phased Adaptive Approach, EPAA) and the creation of Active Layered Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (ALTBMD). Specified milestones and activities under the program, as well as the practical difficulties faced by the U.S. and European countries to deploy missile defense in the context of the global economic crisis are analyzed.

scholarly journals Missile defense as an issue in Russia-United States relations

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-136
Author(s):  
Vladimir Trapara
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rising China ◽  
The U.S

The history of missile defense as an issue in Russia-U.S. relations is already several decades long. Its current phase began in 2007 with the U.S. decision to deploy its missile defense system in Central and Eastern Europe. In this paper, a summary of the most significant moments in missile defense development is offered being followed by the analysis of the issue regarding its technological and political aspects. The basic argument is that the absence of Russian-American deal on this issue is caused by the U.S. general policy that is aimed at depriving Russia of its independent great power status, which it does not want to give up. The U.S. missile defense, although technologically incapable of hurting Russia, is seen by the latter as part of a broader scope of Washington?s measures aimed against it. Meanwhile, as the means of the American ?cleansing? of the ?rogue? regimes missile defense indirectly threatens Russia accelerating its strategic encirclement. The possibility of overcoming this issue as well as the U.S.-Russian rapprochement is seen as a common threat which could be posed by the rising China.

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