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Missile defense

Arm Wrestling

Richard Weitz | Feb 29, 2008
As Russia and the United States break the armistice, will China play referee?

A Strategic Defense Initiative

Carnes Lord | Jun 01, 2004
This is not your father's "Star Wars." Missile Defense is real, it's coming, and it will be a indispensible instrument of American power.

Continental Divides

Josef Joffe | Mar 01, 2003
It took awhile--more than a dozen years, in point of fact--but the natural tendency in international politics for states to balance against the power of a hegemon has emerged. In western Europe, of all places.

Cruise Control: A Case for Missile Defense

Michael O'Hanlon | Mar 01, 2002
There are 75,000 cruise missiles in the world, and the chance that some could fall into nefarious hands isn't nearly small enough.
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Commentary

Obama's Star Wars Regret

James Jay Carafano | Apr 22, 2013
First-term moves on missile defense are now being second-guessed.

Patriot Missiles Won't Cure Syria

Shashank Joshi
Aaron Stein
| Mar 22, 2013
A hands-off no-fly zone won't work very well.

The Iron Dome Effect

Gabriel Scheinmann | Nov 21, 2012
Without its missile interceptors, Israel would have been forced to launch an invasion it didn't want.
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Blogs

Why Should America Pay for Europe's Missile Defense?

Jacob Heilbrunn | Mar 27, 2012
A bolder president would abandon the bogus missile-defense effort and expose the fearmongering behind it.

Iran's Missile Defenses

Christopher A. Preble | Aug 06, 2010

Books & Reviews

A Dubious Partnership; Review of Fred C. Ikle and Sergei A. Karaganov, (co-chairs), Harmonizing the Evolution of U.S. and Russian Defense Policies

James Sherr | Mar 01, 1994
At one time conservatives like Castlereagh, nationalists like Bismarck and internationalists like Gladstone were all convinced that international order would be torn apart unless the interests of Great Powers were respected and kept in balance. Th

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