Ballistic Missile Defence – Technology, Effectiveness and Organization – Key Issues
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https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.14.2017.50.11Keywords:
International Relations, International Security, Strategic Studies, Ballistic Missile Defence, Ballistic MissilesAbstract
The article serves as an introduction to the set of papers that are devoted to the issue of ballistic missile defence as seen from the Polish perspective. It therefore refers in the most general terms to the key problems of the technology and the organization of missile defence. First of all, ballistic missiles and their strategic roles are considered as it is necessary to understand the threat before the defence against it is analyzed. Secondly, the nature of the ballistic missile defence is described, together with extensive reflections on its effectiveness. Further on the paper depicts in short missile defence systems of the world with the special attention to the United States.
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