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IEEE Spectrum March 2005 DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems. |
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Congress Ponders Action After Chinese Anti-Sat Test After the Chinese demonstrated their ability to destroy enemy spacecraft, analysts say U.S. reliance on satellites and make them a weak link in our defenses. |
National Defense July 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit. |
Popular Mechanics February 9, 2009 Glenn Reynolds |
Can Obama Ban Space Weapons Successfully? Soon after President Obama took office, the White House Web site stated that the administration would seek a worldwide ban on weapons interfering with military and commercial satellites. |
National Defense June 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force to Boost Budget to Prepare for Conflicts in Space A potential conflict on Earth that escalates into space has prompted the Air Force to find an extra $5 billion to spend on offensive and defensive systems to protect national security satellites. |
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Carl Hoffman |
China's Space Threat: How Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites The Chinese have successfully destroyed an old weather satellite in space, prompting other countries to respond. |
National Defense September 2015 Graham Kilmer |
Defense Leaders Make Renewed Push For Operationally Responsive Space The Defense Department is eyeing small satellites and new launch systems as potential ways to maintain U.S. space resilience. |
National Defense January 2013 Rich Sorelle |
How to Equip the U.S. Military For Future Electronic Warfare The Navy and Air Force have adopted "air-sea battle." The concept entails highly coordinated, cross-domain operations designed to "disrupt the adversary's intelligence collection and command and control used to employ A2/AD weapons systems. |
Wired April 2002 Bruce Sterling |
Peace Is War Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense, where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of rogue nukes... |
Wired April 2002 George Lewis & Theodore Postol |
Shoot To Kill Two MIT rocket scientists have a dire warning for Washington: The Bush plan for national missile defense won't work. Here's one that will... |
National Defense August 2014 Robert G. Gard Jr. |
National Missile Defense Technology Still Falls Short The United States has been attempting to develop a workable national missile defense capability since 1944. |
National Defense March 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Poor Intelligence Hampers Precision Weapon Performance Despite the widely publicized success in precision strike operations during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the U.S. military lacks the intelligence and sensor capability to assess its targets and battle damage, according to a top Defense Department weapons expert. |
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Murky Picture of What's Happening in Space Worries Air Force Officials There is a deterrent value to space situational awareness that doesn't grab the attention it should. |
National Defense August 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Hypersonic Weapons Race Gathers Speed What nation wouldn't want a weapon that closes in on its target at Mach 10, or about 7,500 mph? |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 J.R. Wilson |
Ballistic Missile Defense Looks to the Future Command centers that will help guide ballistic missile defense efforts are providing opportunities for a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf computers, displays, and high-speed networking. |
Wired April 2002 |
Star Tech: The Next Generation Three do-or-die crisis scenarios, plus the six pillars of space-based defense... |
National Defense July 2011 Eric Beidel |
Military Investigates Killer Drones That Can Fit in Rucksacks Troops are demanding smaller unmanned aerial vehicles on the front lines, sparking efforts to develop lighter weapons for the aircraft. Now there are plans to make weapons out of the drones themselves. |
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy |
U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Keep WMD Out of Enemy Hands Amid concerns about terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. government is increasing its efforts to keep enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction. Some of these efforts, however, are raising hackles even at home. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Tim Shorrock |
U.S. Deploys Missile Defense System The rockets may not glare and bombs may not burst in the air but the Bush administration is forging ahead with construction of what it terms an "operational" missile defense system. |
Parameters November 2004 Franklin Eric Wester |
Preemption and Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq This article demonstrates that the use of military force by the Bush Administration against the regime of Saddam Hussein does not meet the ethical criteria for "preemptive war" set forth in the classical Just War tradition. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 Keller & Wilson |
Information Technology is Key to Air Force 2020 As Air Force leaders look to the future, they are examining how information dominance and real-time shared situational awareness are critical to the challenges of four kinds of military operations. |
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Proliferation of Cruise Missiles Sparks Concern About U.S. Air Defenses The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw the rise of improvised explosive devices as the ultimate asymmetric weapon. Future conflicts, strategists warn, could expose U.S. forces on land and at sea to a deadly weapon that is extremely hard to detect: cruise missiles. |
National Defense June 2004 Peter Teets |
Space Programs Reflect War-Fighting Priorities Space systems increasingly have become integrated into national intelligence and war-fighting operations. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 C. A. Fowler |
Asymmetric Warfare: A Primer The armed forces of United States are the most capable military ever assembled. Are they designed, however, to handle a determined insurgency? Here's a look using famous engineer Frederick W. Lanchester's Mathematics in Warfare as a guide. |
Parameters Summer 2005 Cebrowski & Raymond |
Operationally Responsive Space: A New Defense Business Model As the major defense power in the world, the United States military must dare to compete with itself to ensure sustained advantage. We must set our own standards. Space has long been an arena of American dominance. That must continue. |
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright |
'Wi-Fi in the Sky' The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving forward with a space program that could revolutionize the way satellites are procured and deployed. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 William Sweet |
Google Earth Pictures Open Windows on China's Nuclear Weaponry Here is an interview with the nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists who believes Google images shed light on China's deployment of its second-generation of nuclear weapons systems. |
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Space Programs on Hold as New Architecture Studied The Air Force is in the throes of conducting several studies that service officials say may lead to a radically new space architecture. Meanwhile, getting space system acquisition right is more important than ever. |
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson |
New Satellites to Keep Watch Over Space-Based Systems Two new satellites may be launched later this year that will help the U.S. defense community better understand what is happening to the multi-million dollar spacecraft it depends on. |
Defense Update March 2007 |
Smart Weapons for UAVs The Origins of Weaponized UAVs... Deployment of Weaponized UAVs... Gravity Dropped Munitions for UAVs... etc. |
National Defense February 2014 Stew Magnuson |
U.S. Forces Prepare for a 'Day Without Space' In this scenario, a peer or near-peer competitor severely limits U.S. forces' access to military communication and navigation spacecraft through jamming or something more destructive, such as anti-satellite weapons. |
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Cutbacks Prompt Questions About Vulnerabilities to Air Threats A sizeable reduction planned for the Army's air-and-missile-defense force worries critics that the cutbacks will leave ground combat units more vulnerable to aerial attacks, and increasingly dependent on Air Force and Navy weapons to protect them from enemy missiles. |
National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Pentagon Pushes for Smaller Satellites, Faster Launches The Roadrunner satellite helps break down barriers impeding the flow of information between commanders on the ground and spacecraft, and quickly replaces assets damaged in orbit. |
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Military Looks to Small Satellites as Costs for Large Spacecraft Grow After some 50 years of launching large, complex, multi-million dollar spacecraft, the military and industry are rethinking the way satellites are built and acquired. |
National Defense October 2015 Allyson Versprille |
Analysts: U.S. Must Ramp Up Space Program The United States needs to put more emphasis on advancing space-based capabilities if it hopes to maintain its strategic advantage over China, analysts said. |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Robert Scheer |
When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is... |
Parameters Spring 2007 Louis Rene Beres |
Israel's Uncertain Strategic Future An assessment of current threats to Israel's survival along with recommendations for an end to its policy of nuclear ambiguity. |
Popular Mechanics December 2008 |
New Defensive Missiles Protect U.S. Against Rogue Attacks If a missile is headed for the United States, the Missile Defense Agency's defensive net will work. "I feel confident in the system," says Delta Crew's director, Maj. Don Mercer. |
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Faces Daunting Task to Determine What's Happening in Space The Air Force needs to monitor to have a complete picture of what is happening to the thousands of orbiting systems that circle the planet. |
National Defense August 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Spate of Hypersonic Vehicle Tests Fuels Global Strike Debate Two vehicles, along with a hypersonic missile, have all been mentioned as means to carry out the "prompt global strike" concept. |
National Defense February 2016 Ashley Johnson |
Naval Energetics Research Needs Renewed Focus While other nations are making strides in energetic material development, the United States has remained dormant. |
Popular Mechanics February 14, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Satellite Shot Offers Navy Key Space Defense Trial: How It Works The Pentagon today announced that a Navy warship has been tasked with shooting down a failing United States spy satellite that, if left alone, was expected to hit Earth within weeks. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John Keller |
The importance of military information security Will the the computer and the data network be the aircraft carrier and atomic bomb of the future? |
Defense Update Issue 2, 2006 |
Israels Strategic Defense Programs Israel's multi-layered anti-ballistic defense program known as "Choma" (Barrier wall in Hebrew) was developed to mitigate ballistic missile threats. |
National Defense October 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Scientists Pursue Flexible, Adaptable Space Systems In the future, "virtual satellites" circling the globe will peer down on enemy forces. |
Salon.com September 25, 2002 Robert Scheer |
The arrogance of the Bush Doctrine The president's new foreign policy will only anger other countries, and provoke them to take their own "preemptive action." |
Salon.com May 2, 2001 Fiona Morgan |
Missile defense goes global Bush seeks to woo Europe while violating our hallmark arms control agreement with Russia. Analysts react to the president's speech... |
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Taking Out the Trash: What Can Be Done About Space Debris? What goes up doesn't necessarily come down when it comes to manmade objects orbiting the planet. |
National Defense May 2008 Alan L. Gropman |
Uncertainty About Budgets, Workforce Shape Future of U.S. Weapons Industry Uncertainty about future conflicts and the capabilities of potential enemies raise complex questions about what weaponry the U.S. military will need to counter a wide spectrum of threats. |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006 |
The Challenges of Command and Control in Urban Operations In the past, offensive military operations have usually been conducted in urban environments only when unavoidable, but conflicts are shifting into the cities, where terrorists and insurgents find safe havens. |