The US Anti-Missile Potential in Asia-Pacific

The USA considers missile potentials of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as the main sources of threats to their national security. In the early 2000s following the withdrawal from the Soviet-American ABM Treaty the US began to deploy a global ballistic missile defense system to protect their “ho...

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Main Author: Evgeny Zvedre
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Language:Russian
Published: MGIMO University Press 2019-03-01
Series:Международная аналитика
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Online Access:https://www.interanalytics.org/jour/article/view/238
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description The USA considers missile potentials of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as the main sources of threats to their national security. In the early 2000s following the withdrawal from the Soviet-American ABM Treaty the US began to deploy a global ballistic missile defense system to protect their “homeland, US forces abroad and its allies” from potential and real threats. The set of basic elements of a multi-layer ballistic missile defense is generally the same, its architecture is always adapted to the local conditions of the regions of deployment and specific tasks. Their common designation is the ability to work as subsystems within an integrated, global in scope antiballistic missile defense system controlled by the United States. In the Asia-Pacific region, the United States is actively engaging its regional allies Australia, South Korea and Japan in a joint effort to build-up ABM capabilities while simultaneously increasing its military-strategic presence in the region. Moscow strongly opposes the program considering it as potential threat to the effectiveness of the Russian strategic nuclear forces and undermining strategic stability and considers emergence the ballistic missile subsystems in Europe and the Asian-Pacific Region as a direct threat to its security. US ABM policy provokes the accelerated development by China and the DPRK of ballistic missile delivery systems, encourages Russia to create new weapon systems that are guaranteed to be able to overcome any existing and future missile defense.
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spelling doaj-art-a3958e70c7ea41978167fdc643c3ed202025-08-20T02:53:38ZrusMGIMO University PressМеждународная аналитика2587-84762541-96332019-03-0101-29010310.46272/2587-8476-2019-0-1-2-90-103238The US Anti-Missile Potential in Asia-PacificEvgeny Zvedre0Institute for International Studies, MGIMO-UniversityThe USA considers missile potentials of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as the main sources of threats to their national security. In the early 2000s following the withdrawal from the Soviet-American ABM Treaty the US began to deploy a global ballistic missile defense system to protect their “homeland, US forces abroad and its allies” from potential and real threats. The set of basic elements of a multi-layer ballistic missile defense is generally the same, its architecture is always adapted to the local conditions of the regions of deployment and specific tasks. Their common designation is the ability to work as subsystems within an integrated, global in scope antiballistic missile defense system controlled by the United States. In the Asia-Pacific region, the United States is actively engaging its regional allies Australia, South Korea and Japan in a joint effort to build-up ABM capabilities while simultaneously increasing its military-strategic presence in the region. Moscow strongly opposes the program considering it as potential threat to the effectiveness of the Russian strategic nuclear forces and undermining strategic stability and considers emergence the ballistic missile subsystems in Europe and the Asian-Pacific Region as a direct threat to its security. US ABM policy provokes the accelerated development by China and the DPRK of ballistic missile delivery systems, encourages Russia to create new weapon systems that are guaranteed to be able to overcome any existing and future missile defense.https://www.interanalytics.org/jour/article/view/238national missile defenseasian-pacific regioncomponents and means of ballistic missile defenseunited statesrussiachinanorth koreaearly warning radars and sensorsnuclear missile potentialstrategic stability
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The US Anti-Missile Potential in Asia-Pacific
Международная аналитика
national missile defense
asian-pacific region
components and means of ballistic missile defense
united states
russia
china
north korea
early warning radars and sensors
nuclear missile potential
strategic stability
title The US Anti-Missile Potential in Asia-Pacific
title_full The US Anti-Missile Potential in Asia-Pacific
title_fullStr The US Anti-Missile Potential in Asia-Pacific
title_full_unstemmed The US Anti-Missile Potential in Asia-Pacific
title_short The US Anti-Missile Potential in Asia-Pacific
title_sort us anti missile potential in asia pacific
topic national missile defense
asian-pacific region
components and means of ballistic missile defense
united states
russia
china
north korea
early warning radars and sensors
nuclear missile potential
strategic stability
url https://www.interanalytics.org/jour/article/view/238
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