Author Archives: Constance Baroudos, M.A.
GMD Testing Needs To Be Robustly Funded Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) is the only U.S. military system that has demonstrated the ability to destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles. Such missiles can achieve speeds of several miles per second and may carry a combination of multiple warheads and penetration [Read More...]
The Underlying Logic Of Nuclear Deterrence Remains Valid Nuclear deterrence dominated U.S. national security strategy during the Cold War. The word deterrence is a product of the nuclear age and is not found in international relations literature or strategic theory prior to World War II. However, the concept [Read More...]
Missile Defense Tests Provide Opportunities For Improvement Beneficial lessons can be realized from missile-defense tests even if they are labeled as failures. In some cases, failure or lack of interception is advantageous because it means technology is being pushed to the extreme, potentially facilitating modifications of the [Read More...]
How To Boost National Missile Defense Options Vice Admiral James D. Syring, Director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, and Lieutenant General Richard Formica, Commander of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, have stated that “there is no validated military requirement to deploy an East [Read More...]
Moscow Still Not Satisfied With Washington’s Missile Defense Plan Many wonder if the cancellation of phase four of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) was motivated at least in part by Russia’s strong opposition. Moscow was the number-one critic of phase four of the EPAA because the plan included [Read More...]
U.S. Revamps Missile Defense Policy North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program has developed faster than Washington anticipated. To make matters worse, Pyongyang has threatened to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the United States. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has labeled North Korea’s recent rhetoric as a real [Read More...]
U.S. Navy Is Dedicated To BMD System In Europe Proliferation of ballistic missiles has posed a danger to NATO’s security for years. Over 30 countries have or are in the process of acquiring ballistic missile technology. As a result, Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) is on top of the transatlantic [Read More...]
NATO Deployments Of Patriot In Turkey Help Stabilize A Tense Border Syria’s civil war has dragged on for almost two years and has resulted in over 60,000 casualties. The uprising has spilled into Turkey since it shares a 600-mile border with Syria. Syria shot down a Turkish warplane in the Mediterranean [Read More...]
U.S. To Boost Domestic Missile Defense By Late 2015 On May 26, 1972 the United States and Soviet Union signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty to bar either country from building nationwide ballistic missile defenses. President George W. Bush withdrew from the ABM Treaty on June 13, 2002 to [Read More...]
Missile Defense Is Necessary But Raises Thorny Issues The Missile Defense Agency has signed a contract with Raytheon from January 2013 through May 2015 increasing funding for modification of the AN/TPY-2 radar, a critical part of the ballistic missile defense system, which is deployed on land and at [Read More...]