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Counterforce targeting capabilities and challenges /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schneider, Barry R.
Corporate Author: USAF Counterproliferation Center
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. : USAF Counterproliferation Center, Air University, [2004]
Series:Counterproliferation papers. Future warfare series ; no. 22.
Subjects:
Weapons of mass destruction > Government policy > United States.
Target acquisition.
Online Access:https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS67687
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The ideal counterforce capability
  • III. The revolution in accuracy
  • IV. Implications of stealth for counterforce targeting
  • V. Solving the challenge of hardened deeply buried targets
  • VI. Solving the challenge of targeting mobile missile launchers
  • VII. U.S. scud hunt needs and shortfalls
  • VIII. Solving the challenge of targeting WMD assets: thermobaric (TB) and agent defeat weapons (ADWs)
  • IX. Counterforce science and technology report
  • X. Counterforce targeting planning tools
  • XI. Counterforce employment and preemption decisions
  • XII. Counterforce: the way ahead.