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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 GMD Intercept: What Does It Mean?

This is a good day for homeland missile defense, and a bad day for Kim Jong-un. Hit-to-kill missile defense has once again been validated, this time against a complex and challenging ICBM-class threat.

Critical Questions by Tom Karako — May 30, 2017

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Missile Defense 2020: Next Steps for Defending the Homeland

The CSIS Missile Defense Project cordially invites you to the launch of the report Missile Defense 2020: Next Steps for Defending the Homeland.

Event by Tom Karako , Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) , Dr. Laura Grego , and Dr. James N. Miller — April 7, 2017

Missile Defense 2020: Next Steps for Defending the Homeland

Missile Defense 2020

In policy pronouncements over the last two administrations, the protection of the American homeland was regularly identified as the first priority of U.S. missile defense efforts.

Report by Tom Karako , Ian Williams , and Wes Rumbaugh — April 6, 2017

Space Security: Issues for the New U.S. Administration

On March 22, 2017, the Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) convened in Washington, DC the fourth conference in its Space Security series, in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). 

Event by John J. Hamre , Tom Karako , Todd Harrison , and Andrew Philip Hunter — March 22, 2017

Space Security: Issues for the New U.S. Administration

Missile Defense and Defeat

The National Defense Authorization Act signed into law in 2016 contained a provision mandating a review of missile defeat policy, strategy, and capability, to be completed and submitted to Congress by January 2018. 

Report by Tom Karako , Kenneth Todorov , Keith B. Payne , Brad Roberts , and Henry A. Obering III — March 1, 2017

The Missile Defense Agency and the Color of Money

The CSIS Missile Defense Project cordially invites you to the launch of the report The Missile Defense Agency and the Color of Money: Fewer Resources, More Responsibilities, and a Growing Budget Squeeze.

Event by Tom Karako , Todd Harrison , Lieutenant General Trey Obering , and Major General Ole Knudson — July 29, 2016