North Korea Reportedly Tests Short-Range Ballistic Missile July 26, 2014 by Scott Neuman North Korea has fired a short-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, according to The Associated Press, which quotes an unnamed South Korean official. The test is described as beginning with a launch in the country’s southwest Hwanghae province on Saturday […]
National Defense Magazine Publishes Story on Missile Defense by Lt. Gen. Robert Gard
National Missile Defense Technology Still Falls Short by Lt. General Robert Gard The United States has been attempting to develop a workable national missile defense capability since 1944, prompted initially by German V-2 ballistic missile attacks in Europe during World War II. The most recent initiative is the ground-based midcourse defense system, referred to as […]
The National Interest Publishes an Op-ed on Missile Defense by Lt. General Robert Gard and Phil Coyle
America’s Massive Missile Defense Mistake by Lt. General Robert Gard and Phil Coyle On June 22, the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system successfully intercepted and destroyed a target missile in a test over the Pacific Ocean. The Obama administration has said that a successful test would trigger the addition of fourteen more long-range missile defense […]
Summary of the House Appropriations Committee version of the Fiscal Year 2015 Defense Appropriations Bill
By Laicie Heeley, Kingston Reif and Brenna Gautam On June 10, the House Appropriations Committee approved its version of the Fiscal Year FY) 2015 Defense Appropriations Bill, which includes $571 billion in total funding. Although this is an increase from the 2015 requested budget amount, it reflects an overall $1.7 billion decrease in funding from […]
Fact Sheet: The Ohio-Class Replacement Ballistic Submarine Program
by Gabrielle Tarini Background The Ohio-Class Replacement program, also known as the SSBN(X), is a program to design and build a new class of 12 ballistic missile submarines to replace the U.S. Navy’s current force of 14 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. Ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) form “the most survivable leg” of the U.S. nuclear […]
