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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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The 2019 Missile Defense Review: What's Next?

On February 1, the CSIS Missile Defense Project is pleased to host Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John C. Rood to discuss the review and the Department's likely next steps. Additional speakers may be added.

Event by Tom Karako , David J. Trachtenberg , and Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves — February 1, 2019

The 2019 Missile Defense Review: What's Next?

The 2019 Missile Defense Review: A Good Start

Initiated pursuant to both congressional and presidential direction, the Missile Defense Review report released today represents an attempt to adapt U.S. missile defense policy, posture, and programs to the strategic environment of great power competition writes Tom Karako.

Critical Questions by Tom Karako — January 17, 2019

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Supporting Global Integration: The Joint Staff Approach to Air and Missile Defense

The CSIS Missile Defense Project has cordially invited you to two-panel discussions featuring current and past JIAMDO leaders, to discuss the organization's history, mission, and future opportunities.

Event by Tom Karako , Archer Macy , BG Clement Coward , BG(P) Sean Gainey , LTG Howard Bromberg (USA, ret.) , RADM Archer Macy (USN, ret.) , Brig Gen Kenneth Todorov (USAF, ret.) , and Col Richard Glitz (USAF, ret.) — November 26, 2018

Supporting Global Integration: The Joint Staff Approach to Air and Missile Defense

Reenergizing the Missile Defense Enterprise

Please watch the CSIS Missile Defense Project for a conversation with Dr. Michael D. Griffin, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. 

Event by Tom Karako and Michael Griffin — November 13, 2018

Reenergizing the Missile Defense Enterprise

Leaving the INF Treaty Now Is the Right Call

While the abruptness of the administration’s announcement to leave the INF Treaty has some undesirable short-term consequences, U.S. security will benefit in the long run, as Ian Williams from International Security Program writes in a new commentary.

Commentary by Ian Williams — October 24, 2018

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Hezbollah’s Missiles and Rockets

Hezbollah is the world’s most heavily armed non-state actor, with a large and diverse stockpile of unguided artillery rockets, as well as ballistic, antiair, antitank, and antiship missiles.

Report by Shaan Shaikh and Ian Williams — July 5, 2018

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The Forthcoming Missile Defense Review

The new Missile Defense Review will need to address both the significant advances made by U.S. adversaries and the shift to more competitive footing by states like Russia and China.

Commentary by Tom Karako and Ian Williams — April 6, 2018

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The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy

Dr. Matthew Kroenig, author of a new book, The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy (2018), will discuss essential elements of the composition and history of U.S. nuclear strategy.

Event by Tom Karako and Matthew Kroenig — March 9, 2018