Read the full piece in the LA Times here. “Having two X-band radars in the test so closely positioned along the target flight path is one way in which the test was scripted for success,” said Philip E. Coyle III, a former director of the Pentagon testing office. Read the full piece in the LA […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in KTUU
Read the full piece in KTUU here. In a real world situation, Philip Coyle, co-author of “The Challenges of Nuclear Non-Proliferation” and board member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, says to compensate for the systems poor scorecard, in order to get a hit, the shot doctrine says anywhere from 3 to 5 […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in The Hill
Read the full piece in The Hill here. “They’re going to build more and more offensive missiles to overwhelm our systems, which is the opposite of what we want them to do,” said Philip Coyle, a former Pentagon weapons tester who is now a senior science fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in POLITICO
Read the full piece in POLITICO here. “Partly we are failing because it is the hardest thing the Pentagon has tried to do,” said Phil Coyle, who served as the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester in the Clinton administration and in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Obama administration. “We’ve had […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Financial Times
Read the full piece in the Financial Times here. “The problem is that any enemy that believes the system really worked would just build more offensive missiles,” said Philip Coyle, former head of weapons testing at the Pentagon, saying that is “exactly the opposite of what we want”. He said missile defence systems have erroneously […]
