Read the full piece in NPR. The test conducted by troops of the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base cost $244 million. Philip E. Coyle is a former head of the Pentagon’s test and evaluation office and a senior fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. He tells The Associated Press, […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in The Atlantic
Read the full piece here. On Tuesday, Philip Coyle, a senior fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told CNN the test “marks two successes in a row, which is significant,” but added that only two of the last five attempts were successful. “In school, 40 percent isn’t a passing grade,” Coyle told […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Defense News
Read the full piece. “Based on its testing record, we cannot rely upon this missile defense program to protect the United States from a North Korean long-range missile. If anything, over-reliance on missile defenses could impede diplomatic efforts that could avoid a dangerous confrontation,” Philip Coyle, who formerly headed the Pentagon’s office of operational test […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Foreign Policy
Read the full piece here. “Based on its testing record, we cannot rely upon this missile defense program to protect the United States from a North Korean long-range missile,” said Philip E. Coyle of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “In several ways, this test was a $244 million dollar baby step, a baby […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in WIRED
Read the full piece. “These tests are scripted for success,” says Philip Coyle, senior fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Prevention and former head of the Pentagon’s test and evaluation office. “What’s been surprising to me as that they have failed as often as they have in spite of that.” “If North Korea […]
