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Defending against theater and intercontinental ballistic missiles, potentially carrying nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, requires 100% effectiveness--anything less continues to afford our enemies weapons of mass effect. If the U.S. is to be successful in answering this threat, a re-evaluation of boost phase intercept (BPI) options is in order. This paper highlights the ballistic missile threat and joint defense systems; provides an assessment of those systems; re-evaluates BPI merits; and proposes a kinetic boost phase solution (with concept of operations) to bridge the potential fielding of space-base weapons. Early engagement provides better, faster, cheaper and less destabilizing missile defense capability. "Heads, not tails" sounds a call to the Missile Defense Agency, Strategic Command and all Services to commit to producing BPI capability (first kinetic, then directed energy), ahead of other systems and upgrades.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education

• Full title: Heads, Not Tails
• Subtitle: How Best to Engage Theater Ballistic Missiles?
• Author: Ronald C Wiegand
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78
• EAN: 9781288398263
• ISBN: 9781288398263
• ID: 08249495
• Publisher: Biblioscholar
• Weight: 154 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 189 × 4 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. December 2012

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