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Recognizing that over the next decade or so the United States and its allies will face a proliferation of precision weapons and missiles in the hands of adversaries, IFPA has undertaken several projects to assess U.S. and Allied missile defense and counterproliferation policy and technology. The most notable among these are described below.
Allied Cooperation on Theater Missile Defense (TMD)
In its continuing investigation of the status of evolving regional missile threats and potential military counters to them, IFPA periodically organizes and hosts workshops and conferences for senior Allied officials with operational and/or policy-making responsibility for missile defense programs. Participants have the opportunity to examine technology now or soon to be available, as well as longer-term technological developments. The meetings promote discussion of ways to fund, develop, and procure these systems collaboratively, and of how best to deploy them so as to reinforce joint and combined theater missile defense in regions of shared importance.
Workshops and conferences have included the following:
Missile Defense and Counterproliferation on the Korean
Peninsula: Exploring U.S.-ROK Options and Requirements.
IFPA held a workshop on October 8, 2002, in Seoul, in support of the
Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA, formerly BMDO)
and U.S. Forces Korea (USFK). Organized in association with the Center
for International Studies of the Graduate School of International Studies
(GSIS) at Yonsei University, Seoul,this bilateral U.S.-South Korean
workshop brought together key members of the American and South Korean
governments, as well as academic experts and analysts from the think-tank
communities of both countries, to explore the air and missile threat
environment in Northeast Asia and to discuss and identify appropriate
options for responding. More...
Defending the Northeast, the Nation, and America's
Allies from Ballistic Missile Attack. This major missile defense
conference was held June 28-29, 2001, against the backdrop of a new
administration, which took office at a critical point in the missile
defense debate and discussion and in a changing security setting. It
followed President Bush's important address on missile defense on May
1, 2001, at National Defense
University. Topics
addressed included proliferation and the missile threat; the ABM Treaty
and missile defense; technology options and architectures for missile
defense; priorities and programs, timelines, and cost; and allies and
coalition partners and missile defense.
This meeting was designed to bring together expertise
from the political-military and technology-industry communities, together
with others having an interest in national security and missile defense.
Speakers and participants will include present and former high-level
policy makers, members of legislatures, and senior military leaders,
members of the broader academic-policy community, and representatives
from industry. More...
Theater Missile Defense in Northeast Asia: Implications for Korean Security and the ROK-U.S. Alliance. Held in June 1999 at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, his conference was opened by General John Tilelli, commander in chief, UN Command/Combined Forces Command, and commander, U.S. Forces Korea. The conference explored a variety of issues related to U.S. and Korean air/missile defense requirements, including the following:
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Missile Defense Technology
The following projects together provide the policy community with a comprehensive examination of the factors shaping the future security setting and likely missile-threat environment, with an emphasis on the mid- and long-term implications of missile-related technology diffusion. They also recommend technological, policy, and organizational responses for U.S. defense planners to consider, focusing on the feasibility of various missile defense options now in development.
The Role of Psychological Operations in Counterproliferation Policy
Psychological operations (PSYOP) constitute a little-studied counterproliferation tool with which the United States seeks to dissuade, impede, and deter its adversaries from using WMD. In 1998 the Institute completed an examination of psychological operations and their possible effectiveness in helping to reduce the danger posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass estruction. IFPA provided an overview of the key policy issues associated with the use of PSYOP in counterproliferation planning. These issues include: