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The Missile Defense Project at CSIS looks at a wide range of policy, program, and strategic issues related to missile defense. Technological and geopolitical factors have driven increased global supply and demand for high-velocity, unmanned, missile-based weapons and their corresponding counters. Besides more recognized cruise and ballistic missile threats, global missile proliferation now consists of a spectrum including precision-guided rockets, anti-ship missiles, air defenses, hypersonic delivery systems, and counterspace weapons.  
 

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North America is a Region, Too

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

This report explores the strategic significance of air and missile defense for the homeland, considers principles informing defense design, and develops and costs an architecture based on those principles.

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Missile Threat brings together a wide range of information and analysis relating to the proliferation of cruise and ballistic missiles around the world and the air and missile defense systems designed to defeat them.

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Offense–Defense Integration for Missile Defeat

Despite broad interest, little progress has been made toward the integration of offenses with missile defenses, or even defining the concept. Its implementation would require considerable change in terms of policy, doctrine, organization, training, materiel, and personnel.

Report by Brian R. Green — July 6, 2020

PHOTO: AIR FORCE TECH. SGT. NED T. JOHNSTON

The Missile War in Yemen

The Arab coalition’s experience in Yemen’s civil war contains important lessons for the United States and its allies.

Report by Ian Williams and Shaan Shaikh — June 9, 2020

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When Iran Attacks

In its January 8 attack, Iran achieved strategic effects while minimizing the risks of further escalation. CSIS’s Ian Williams argues that it also shows that Iran’s missiles pose a credible threat to U.S. and allied military forces in the region.

Critical Questions by Ian Williams — January 9, 2020

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Iranian Missiles in Iraq

Iran is supplying Iraqi militias with missiles, carrying with them a range of diplomatic, military, and economic consequences.

Brief by Shaan Shaikh — December 11, 2019

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