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Missile Contagion - Cruise Missile Proliferation and the Threat to International Security (Hardcover)
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Missile Contagion - Cruise Missile Proliferation and the Threat to International Security (Hardcover)
Series: Praeger Security International
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Most books on missile proliferation focus on the spread of
ballistic missiles or cruise missiles, not both. Gormley's work,
however, explains why cruise missiles are beginning to spread
widely, but does so by explaining their spread in the context of
ballistic missile proliferation. It therefore treats both ballistic
and cruise missile proliferation as related phenomenon. This work
also focuses evenhandedly on both nonproliferation and defense
policy (including missile defenses and counterforce doctrines) to
fashion a set of integrated strategies for dealing with ballistic
and cruise missile proliferation. Signs of missile contagion
abound. In this study, Gormley argues that a series of rapid and
surprising developments since 2005 suggest that the proliferation
of missiles capable of delivering either weapons of mass
destruction or highly accurate conventional payloads is approaching
a critical threshold. The surprising fact is that land-attack
cruise missiles, not ballistic missiles, constitute the primary
problem. Flying under the radar, both literally and figuratively,
land-attack cruise missiles add a dangerous new dimension to
protecting U.S. security interests and preventing regional military
instability. Gormley asserts that cruise missiles are not destined
to supplant ballistic missiles; rather, they are likely to join
them, because when both are employed together, they could severely
test even the best missile defenses. Worse yet, Gormley argues,
land-attack cruise missiles are increasingly being linked to
preemptive strike doctrines, which are fueling regional arms races
and crisis instability. This work explains why an epidemic of
cruise missile proliferation, long forecastedby analysts, has only
recently begun to occur. After first assessing the state of
ballistic missile proliferation, Gormley explores the role of three
factors in shaping the spread of cruise missiles. These include
specialized knowledge needed for missile development; narrative
messages about reasons for acquiring cruise missiles; and norms of
state behavior about missile nonproliferation policy and defense
doctrine. This book then addresses the policy adjustments needed to
stanch the spread of cruise missiles in the first place, or,
barring that, cope militarily with a more demanding missile threat
consisting of both cruise and ballistic missiles.
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