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Heads, Not Tails

Heads, Not Tails

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1025132351
ISBN13: 9781025132358
Publisher: Hutson Street Press
Published: May 22 2025
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Defending against theater and intercontinental ballistic missiles, potentially carrying nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, requires 100% effectiveness--anything less continues to afford our enemies weapons of mass effect. If the U.S. is to be successful in answering this threat, a re-evaluation of boost phase intercept (BPI) options is in order. This paper highlights the ballistic missile threat and joint defense systems; provides an assessment of those systems; re-evaluates BPI merits; and proposes a kinetic boost phase solution (with concept of operations) to bridge the potential fielding of space-base weapons. Early engagement provides better, faster, cheaper and less destabilizing missile defense capability. Heads, not tails sounds a call to the Missile Defense Agency, Strategic Command and all Services to commit to producing BPI capability (first kinetic, then directed energy), ahead of other systems and upgrades.

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