Bibliograph

Type

Label

"Heads, not tails", how best to engage theater ballistic missiles, by Ronald C. Wiegand

Language

eng

resource.governmentPublication

federal national government publication

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

"Heads, not tails"

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

227924830

Responsibility statement

by Ronald C. Wiegand

Series statement

Occasional paper, no. 53

Sub title

how best to engage theater ballistic missiles

Summary

Defending against theater and intercontinental ballistic missiles, potentially carrying nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, requires 100% effectiveness anything less continues to afford our enemies weapons of mass effect. If the U.S. is to be successful in answering this threat, a re-evaluation of boost phase intercept (BPI) options is in order. This paper highlights the ballistic missile threat and joint defense systems; provides an assessment of those systems; re-evaluates BPI merits; and proposes a kinetic boost phase solution (with concept of operations) to bridge the potential fielding of space-base weapons. Early engagement provides better, faster, cheaper and less destabilizing missile defense capability. Heads, not tails sounds a call to the Missile Defense Agency, Strategic Command and all Services to commit to producing BPI capability (first kinetic, then directed energy), ahead of other systems and upgrades

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