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Authoritative analysis on missile defense and related issues

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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Distributed Defense: New Operational Concepts for Integrated Air and Missile Defense

The Distributed Defense concept focuses on creating a new architecture for today’s fielded or soon-to-be fielded IAMD force to boost flexibility and resilience.

Event by Tom Karako , Archer Macy , Lieutenant General James Dickinson (USA) , Lieutenant General Richard Formica (USA, ret.) , Brigadier General Clement Coward (USA) , Jen Judson , Vince Sabio , and Rear Admiral Archer Macy (USN, ret.) — January 25, 2018

Distributed Defense: New Operational Concepts for Integrated Air and Missile Defense

Distributed Defense

Despite the rising salience of missile threats, current air and missile defense forces are far too susceptible to suppression. Today’s U.S. air and missile defense (AMD) force lacks the depth, capacity, and operational flexibility to simultaneously perform both missions.

Report by Tom Karako and Wes Rumbaugh — January 25, 2018

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Dissecting the Big Missile Defense Plus-up

Missile defense funds are likely to grow—a lot. In addition to a September reprogramming of an additional $249 million for the Missile Defense Agency for FY 2017, appropriations for FY 2018 could exceed $11 billion, over $3 billion more that than the president’s original request. This would make for the highest level of missile defense funding in a decade.

Commentary by Tom Karako and Wes Rumbaugh — December 5, 2017

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ISP Brief November 2017

It's our pleasure to send you the November Edition of the ISP Brief, the monthly newsletter of the CSIS International Security Program. ISP Brief features articles and commentary written by our scholars, their analysis as published in various media sources (including video and audio highlights), and links to recent events. We hope the newsletter provides you, our readers, a snapshot of the excellent work underway in ISP, and the engaging thoughts of our experts. As always, your feedback is welcome.

Newsletter — November 30, 2017

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The Russia Challenge in Europe

Please join the CSIS Missile Defense Project and the CSIS Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) for The Russia Challenge in Europe: The INF Treaty and Implications for Army Modernization, featuring a keynote address by Senator Tom Cotton. The event will also roll out DIIG's new report, The Army Modernization Imperative: A New Big Five for the Twenty First Century. Additional speakers to be announced.

Event by Tom Karako , Andrew Philip Hunter , Senator Tom Cotton , Heidi Shyu , COL Dan Roper, USA (Ret.) , and Douglas Bush — July 17, 2017

The Russia Challenge in Europe

North Korea’s New ICBM

During the July 3 test, the Hwasong-14 traveled for around 40 minutes before landing in the Sea of Japan, inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone. The missile was launched on a highly lofted trajectory to an altitude of about 2,800 kilometers and traveled some 930 kilometers in distance.

Critical Questions by Tom Karako and Ian Williams — July 6, 2017

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Integrating Strike and Defense

Event by Todd Harrison , Tom Karako , Christopher Ford , Lt. Gen. Henry "Trey" Obering, USAF (ret.) , and Randy Forbes — June 27, 2017

Integrating Strike and Defense