Read the full piece here. “If a target is going 15,000 miles an hour and so are you with your interceptor, and if you miss by an inch, you miss by a mile,” Phillip Coyle, the former head of weapons testing at the Pentagon and former assistant secretary of defense, told Foxtrot Alpha. “It’s the […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle Quoted in LA Times
Read the full piece in the LA Times. Former Assistant Defense Secretary Philip E. Coyle III, who led the Pentagon’s office of operational testing and evaluation for six years, said the January 2016 test failure was cause for serious concern about GMD’s reliability. “If the circuitry caused a failure, that’s a bad thing,” Coyle said. […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in USNI News
Read the full piece in USNI News. A pause in the Polish site, Phil Coyle, from the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation, said would allow President Donald Trump to demonstrate he “is willing to take a fresh look … and assess Russia’s reaction” to those initiatives on building a different relationship. Read the full […]
Center Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle interviewed in The Cipher Brief
Read the full interview in The Cipher Brief. The United States relies on missile defense systems to protect its allies and its troops stationed all around the world. Yet in some instances, the deployment of such systems is a strain on regional stability. The Cipher Brief spoke to Philip Coyle, a senior science fellow at […]
Congress’ Call to Expand National Missile Defense Marks the Height of Irresponsibility
Removing longstanding U.S. policy on “limited” national missile defense is financially reckless, exceptionally destabilizing, and detrimental to U.S. national security. President Obama should consider vetoing the latest National Defense Authorization bill based on this provision alone. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hazel Correa hcorrea@armscontrolcenter.org 202.546.0795 x2115 Washington, DC – Since 1997, Congress has mandated that the policy […]
