Maintaining friendly skies: Rediscovering theater aerospace defense

Maintaining friendly skies: Rediscovering theater aerospace defense

The Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attack brought home the catastrophic consequences of an insufficient homeland aerospace defense. The history of the Cold War is replete with attempts to build effective aerospace defenses for the US and USSR homelands as well as for the theater armed forces of both superpo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Air & space power journal 2002-07, Vol.16 (2), p.34
Hauptverfasser: Grau, Lester W, Kipp, Jacob W
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Arms control & disarmament
Cold War
Defense
Military aircraft
Military readiness
Military reserves
Military strategy
Military weapons
Missiles
National security
Nuclear weapons
R&D
Research & development
Space weapons
Suicide bombings
Theater
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Zusammenfassung:The Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attack brought home the catastrophic consequences of an insufficient homeland aerospace defense. The history of the Cold War is replete with attempts to build effective aerospace defenses for the US and USSR homelands as well as for the theater armed forces of both superpowers. Grau and Kipp chronicle this history and recommend steps for improving US theater and homeland aerospace defenses.
ISSN:1555-385X
1554-2505