America Should Integrate a Strike Capability With Its Missile Defense Systems
Offense-defense integration will not be a panacea, but it will be critical to a realistic and cost-effective way to contend with modern missile threats.
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FY 2021 Missile Defense and Defeat Budget Tracker
Track the status of Fiscal Year 2021 missile defense funding as it makes its way through Congress.
Missiles for Peace: A Path to a Durable Cease-fire in Yemen
Limitations on the Houthi missile arsenal will be a necessary component of any lasting peace.
Report: The Missile War in Yemen
The Missile War in Yemen is the first comprehensive review of missile and missile defense activity in the ongoing Yemen conflict.
Inflection Point: Missile Defense and Defeat in the 2021 Budget
The 2021 budget submission represents an inflection point for missile defense programs, the relationship between active defenses and other forms of missile defeat, and the institutional makeup of the missile defense enterprise.
What to Look for in the FY 2021 Defense Budget Request
In this brief, experts from the CSIS International Security Program outline major issues to watch in the FY 2021 defense budget.
Uncomfortable Lessons: Reassessing Iran’s Missile Attack
Nearly one month has passed since Iran attacked U.S. troops in Iraq with a barrage of ballistic missiles. As considerably more information has now come to light, a reassessment seems…
Iranian Missiles in Iraq
The Issue Iran-backed militias within Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) have acquired short-range ballistic missiles from Tehran, supplementing their existing arsenal of unguided rockets. These militias’ small, harassing rocket attacks…
A New Generation of Homeland Missile Defense Interceptors
Recent Pentagon actions have produced considerable uncertainty in the future of homeland ballistic missile defense. In August 2019, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Dr. Michael Griffin cancelled the Redesigned Kill…
More Than Missiles: China Previews its New Way of War
The Issue China’s October 1 display of military hardware revealed a nation seeking to supplant the United States as the dominant military and technological power in the Asia-Pacific region. Many…