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Jeremy Stocker

Britain and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1942-2002

Jeremy Stocker

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English
Routledge
27 May 2004
Warfare & defence; Defence strategy, planning & research; Weapons & equipment
Series: Strategy and History
Britain was the first country to come under sustained ballistic missile attack, during 1944--45. Defence against ballistic missiles has been a persistent, if highly variable, subject of political policy and technical investigation ever since. The British Second World War experience of trying to counter the V-2 attacks contained many elements of subsequent responses to ballistic missile threats: an uncertain intelligence picture; the establishment of an early-warning system; a counter-force campaign to destroy rockets on the ground; passive defence measures to ameliorate the effects of missile strikes; and elaborate but untried active defences to intercept missiles in flight. After the war, a reasonably accurate picture of Soviet missile capabilities was not

achieved until the early 1960s, by which time the problem of early warning had largely been solved. Early British efforts to develop active defences, however, foundered because of

the formidable technical challenges and limited resources, but some defences were established by the Americans and the Soviets. From the mid-1960s on, British attention shifted away from the development of the country's own defences towards the wider consequences of US and Soviet deployments. British concerns centred around the implications of active

defence for strategic stability, the arms-control process and the credibility of the UK's small nuclear deterrent. The British government had to respond three times to American defence programmes, though each time its worries were ultimately assuaged. Soviet defences around Moscow were more problematic and resulted in a sophisticated and expensive project -- Chevaline -- to overcome them. After the end of the Cold War there was renewed interest in a limited active-defence capability against Third World missile threats. A series of technical and policy studies has yet to result in a procurement decision, but looks increasingly likely in coming years. This well-researched book is primarily aimed at students of post-war British foreign and defence policies, but will also be of interest to informed general readers.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   612g
ISBN:   9780714656960
ISBN 10:   0714656968
Series:   Strategy and History
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1. Introduction 2. The Wartime V-2 Experience 3. The Emerging Soviet Threat 4. Early Efforts at Active Defence 5. Ballistic Missile Early Warning 6. American ABM Deployment 7. Soviet ABM Deployment 8. Britain and the Strategic Defense Initiative 9. After the Cold War 10. Britain and US National Missile Defense 11. Conclusions and Prospects

Jeremy Stocker is Director of Studies at the Centre for Defence and International Security Studies (CDISS), a British independent defence think tank. He served in the Royal Navy for twenty years, specialising in air defense, before transferring to the Royal Naval Reserve in 1996. Dr. Stocker is the author of Britain and Ballistic Missile Defense 1942-2002 and is a regular contributor to academic and professional journals on both sides of the Atlantic.

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