Wes Rumbaugh

Fellow, Missile Defense Project
Wes Rumbaugh

Wes Rumbaugh is a fellow in the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His work focuses on missile defense, conventional long-range strike, and defense budgets and organizations. He has published on the composition of the Missile Defense Agency budget, homeland ballistic missile defense, new operational concepts for missile defense systems, the role of elevated sensors in missile strike and defense, and trends in hypersonic strike. Previously, he was director of advocacy and a Van Cleave fellow at the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. He holds a BS in political science from Missouri State University.

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Cost and Value in Air and Missile Defense Intercepts

The common analysis of recent air and missile defense engagements in the Red Sea through a cost exchange ratio framework ignores both the complexity of those engagements and the complicated value of air and missile defense.

Commentary by Wes Rumbaugh — February 13, 2024

North America Is a Region, Too

New threats and the specter of non-nuclear strategic attack require a new approach to U.S. air and missile defense. This study discusses the need for homeland cruise missile defense, outlines principles informing defense design, and develops and costs an architecture.

Report by Tom Karako, Ian Williams, Wes Rumbaugh, Ken Harmon, and Matthew Strohmeyer — July 14, 2022