Attacking the Mobile Ballistic Missile Threat in the Post-Cold War Environment : New Rules to an Old Game

By Major Robert W. Stanley II, USAF

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Reproduction Date: 10/22/2012

Title:	Attacking the Mobile Ballistic Missile Threat in the Post-Cold War Environment : New Rules to an Old Game
Author:	Major Robert W. Stanley II, USAF
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Military Science, Mobile Missiles
Collections:	Authors Community, Technology
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Publisher:	Air University Press

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Citation APA MLA Chicago Robert W. Stanley Ii, Usa, B. M. (n.d.). Attacking the Mobile Ballistic Missile Threat in the Post-Cold War Environment : New Rules to an Old Game. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
While investigating these topics, my research centered on an interview with one of the former Soviet Union’s top missile engineers, the vice commander of Air Combat Command, discussions with the USAF Air Armament Center’s chief of advanced concepts, and on recently declassified CIA documents regarding the US reconnaissance program and National Intelligence Estimates. Also important to this work are Russian language sources documenting the Soviet need to develop mobile missiles. Although many other sources within the media and academia were tapped for information, these were the most prominent. As a result, this study highlights many of the great technological leaps America has made toward being able to attack mobile missiles, but it also underscores the need for improved coordination.

Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION . . . .1 2 THE EVOLUTION AND SPREAD OF MOBILE BALLISTIC MISSILES. . . 5 3 THE AMERICAN COLD WAR RESPONSE . . . . . . . . . 21 4 RESPONDING TO MOBILE BALLISTIC MISSILES IN THE POST–COLD WAR ENVIRONMENT. . . . . . . 37 5 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . . . 51