uring June 1995 through September 1998, APL conducted a series of Warfare Analysis Laboratory Exercises (WALEXs) in support of the Naval Air Systems Command. The goal of these exercises was to examine a concept then known as the Air-Directed Surface-to-Air Missile (ADSAM) System in support of Navy Overland Cruise Missile Defense. A team of analysts and engineers from APL and elsewhere was assem...

Nuclear proliferation, because of its ability to threaten human survival, is fast coming to overshadow all other global issues.1-7 When the renowned explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau addressed the UN General Assembly in 1976 he observed that atomic power had "reshaped what we may fear, what we may dream, how we live and how we may die." He was emphasising as many before him had done that since Aug...

In summer 2000, the Clinton administration is scheduled to decide whether to authorize deployment by the United States of a limited national missile defense (NMD) system. This date arose from a “3+3” policy announced in the midst of the 1996 election campaign: under it, the administration would conduct research and development on missile defenses until 2000, then decide whether to proceed to a ...

Recent studies in nuclear deterrence show that punishment is infeasible most cases due to the opponent’s second-strike capability, tactical redundancy, and logic of self-deterrence. However, if challenge against expected go unpunished, deterrent policy not credible will likely fail. Can defender violently punish challenger possessing weapons? If it can, under what conditions? Thanks President K...

Drone swarms, which can be used at sea, on land, in the air, and even space, are fundamentally information-dependent weapons. No study to date has examined drone swarms context of information warfare writ large. This article explores dependence these resultant connections with areas warfare—electronic, cyber, psychological—drawing open-source research qualitative reasoning. Overall, offers insi...