Upcoming CSBA report on missile defense

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments will release a report later this month that looks at how the United States can counter large salvos of ballistic missiles in the future.

According to a CSBA announcement:

The Department of Defense (DoD) spent more than $24 billion over the last fifteen years to buy a mix of missile defense capabilities that still lack the capacity to counter large salvos of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and other precision-guided munitions (PGMs) that can now be launched by America's enemies. Why is this so? In part it arose from DOD's long-term emphasis on defeating a small number of ballistic missiles launched by rogue states such as Iran and North Korea. It is also because the U.S. military has never fought enemies who have been capable of striking distant targets with precision. In future conflicts, however, America's opponents can be expected to employ large numbers of long-range precision weapons against U.S. forces, potentially overwhelming their defenses.

On April 26, CSBA senior fellows Mark Gunzinger and Bryan Clark will talk about "initiatives that could improve our Nation's ability to counter guided weapon salvos that threaten its future ability to project power."

Gunzinger and Clark will present their report titled "Winning The Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America's Air And Missile Defenses." The document "examines the dynamic between militaries that have PGMs and capabilities to counter one another's precision strikes in order to assess promising operational concepts and capabilities for air and missile defense," according to the CSBA announcement.