Some thoughts at the Diplomat on BMD: The nub of genuine utility is this; ballistic missile defense can help protect the forward military installations of a state from attack by hyper-accurate ballistic missiles designed to destroy and disrupt military capability. Soviet plans to strike Western European...
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Given the coincidence of "May the Fourth be With You," and the season finale of The Americans, this is worth a look: The archival documents also help dispel the notion.
I have a piece at Open Zion on new skepticism about the effectiveness of Iron Dome: Keeping all this in mind, we should take care in assessing claims about Iron.
Over at the Diplomat, I share my "meh" about ballistic missile proliferation: Cooperation between North Korea and Iran has become a great concern, especially with the relative success of North Korea’s latest launch. Syrian missile use has raised fears that Assad’s government might take further...
I have some thoughts on Iron Dome over at Open Zion: Even on its own terms, the strategic success of Iron Domes remains in serious question. Whatever tactical success Iron.
Geoff Forden wrote a fantastic post on the technical challenges that the Chinese DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile system faces, and poses. Make sure to read the comments as well.
I've been getting a lot of e-mails asking for reaction to this story. For my own previous writings, see here. Information Dissemination has done a lot of work on this topic; see especially here, here, and here. For a good NWCR article on the subject...
Underlining this bit of nonsense about the Germans using submarine-towed V-2 launchers to attack the United States during World War II is the implicit assumption that the US is fundamentally.
EMP advocacy is about one thing, and only one thing: Missile defense. This is why EMP advocates conjure up nonsensical scenarios about 95% of the American population dying in a.
American neoconservatives tend to get hostile when you make the point that every country has its neocons. The response typically runs something like this:How can you possibly compare me with those Russians/Chinese/Iranians? Don't you understand that I cloak my hawkish right wing nationalism behind a...
Check out this (somewhat dated) article on Israeli missile defenses. The article makes the point that Israel's missile defenses have progressed to the point that even a concerted Iranian ballistic.
A few years ago, a student of mine worked out the implications of a large scale Chinese SRBM (short range ballistic missile) attack on Taiwan. He argued that the attack.