Missile Defense in the 21st Century: Protection Against Limited Threats: Including Lessons from the Gulf War

ISBN-13: 9780367004422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 172 str.

Keith B. Payne

Opis

This book tackles different aspects of the adaptive and transformative process in communist and post-communist systems in Eastern Europe, offering competing models, which locate the explanatory variable in different places and account for the unfolding of change in different ways.

Spis treści

Introduction -- The Rationale For Missile Defense: Protection And Deterrence -- Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS) -- Missile Defenses In The Future Security Environment—Emerging Missile Threats And The Shadow Of The Gulf War -- Soviet Views On Proliferation And Missile Defense: Implications For The ABM Treaty and GPALS -- The Threat Of Accidental/Unauthorized Strikes And GPALS -- Alternatives To GPALS? -- The Debate About Missile Defense: Some Preliminary Lessons From The Gulf War -- Summary And Conclusions