This 2019 Missile Defense Review (MDR) is consistent with the 2017 NSS, the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS), and the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). It describes the policies, strategies, and capabilities that will guide the Department of Defense (DoD) missile defense programs to counter the expanding missile threats posed by rogue states and revisionist powers to us, our allies, and partners, including ballistic and cruise missiles, and hypersonic vehicles. It recognizes and highlights the important changes that have taken place in the security environment since the previous 2010 Ballistic Missile Defense Review was conducted, as well as the considerable uncertainties about the future threat environment.

2019 Missile Defense Review - January 2019 According to a senior administration official, a number of new technologies are highlighted in the report. The review looks at "the comprehensive environment the United States faces, and our allies and partners face. It does posture forces to be prepared for capabilities that currently exist and that we anticipate in the future." The report calls for major investments from both new technologies and existing systems. This is a very important and insightful report because many of the cost assessments for these technologies in the past, which concluded they were too expensive, are no longer applicable. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. We look over each document carefully and replace poor quality images by going back to the original source document. We proof each document to make sure it's all there - including all changes. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these large documents as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound, full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a HUBZONE SDVOSB. https: //usgovpub.com

The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) states that the Defense Department's "enduring mission is to provide combat-credible military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our nation." This 2019 Missile Defense Review (MDR) is fully aligned with the NDS. It was conducted pursuant to public law and executed in order to support the clear national interests defined by the President in the 2017 National Security Strategy. The 2019 MDR sets the guidelines for the Department-wide effort to strengthen the defense of our homeland and the Joint Force's posture. It presents the policies, strategies, and capabilities that will guide the Department's missile defense initiatives and programs over the coming decade to enhance the protection of the American people, defend our sovereignty, and meet our international obligations and commitments to our allies and partners. We must anticipate the evolution of adversary offensive missile capabilities, and develop and field the U.S. missile defenses that fit the needs of this era. As noted in the 2018 NDS, sharpening the competitive edge of our Joint Force is a must. By this I mean enabling our force to deploy and employ in the face of the developing missile threat. This requires thinking creatively and acting with greater urgency. We will generate innovative solutions that expand the competitive space, and create vulnerability gaps and dilemmas for future adversaries. In the face of rising competition, we must proactively work to better defend the homeland, and enhance deterrence to adapt to the needs of this era. We need institutional processes to generate lethal capabilities with greater affordability at the speed of relevance. These guidelines for U.S. missile defense are particularly critical today given the continuing proliferation of offensive missile technology and the dynamics of an increasingly competitive strategic environment. The logic of the 2018 NDS is simple; a more lethal and agile Joint Force, coupled with a more robust system of allied and partner capabilities that are designed to be interoperable with ours, will preserve an international order that is most conducive to peace and prosperity. The defense strategy stresses the readiness of today's armed forces and prioritized development of future capabilities.

In January 2019, the Department of Defense released the Missile Defense Review (MDR), which describes the Administration’s plans and policies for defenses against ballistic and cruise missiles. In this report, the Congressional Budget Office analyzes the MDR and estimates the potential costs of implementing its recommendations.

A central theme of the 2019 Missile Defense Review is the desirability of integrating offensive forces with active and passive defenses. But what would the realization of such a comprehensive and integrated approach look like, and what would it require? Despite broad and sustained interest, little progress has been made in the actual integration of offenses with air and missile defenses, or even clearly elucidating and defining the concept. Thorough implementation of offense-defense integration for countering missile threats would touch almost every aspect of the U.S. military, including policy, doctrine, organization, training, materiel, and personnel. While desirable, complete integration down to the tactical level will be technically and operationally difficult to achieve. Even where possible, its realization will be neither rapid nor easy.

The National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 mandates a review of missile defeat policy, strategy, and capability to be completed by January 2018. This upcoming Missile Defeat Review (MDR) represents an opportunity for the Trump administration to articulate a vision for the future of air and missile defense. This collection of expert essays explores how the strategic environment for missile defense and defeat has evolved since 2010 and offers recommendations to help guide and inform the MDR’s development.

"[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.

The Ballistic Missile Defense Review has surveyed the spectrum of threat capabilities and possible intent; assessed the current state and potential growth of U.S. BMD technical capabilities; considered opportunities for cooperation with allies and partners in missile defense; and considered the underlying technical, organizational, and programmatic structure of U.S. missile defense. The result is a refocused policy and a comprehensive strategy to improve our missile defenses. The key policy priorities set out earlier are to Defend the United States homeland against the threat of limited ballistic missile attack; Defend against existing regional missile threats to U.S. forces while protecting our allies and partners and enabling them to defend themselves; Test our developing capabilities to ensure that they can reliably and effectively help U.S. forces accomplish their mission; Develop and field BMD capability that is fiscally sustainable over the long term; Base BMD planning on reasonable judgments about current and prospective threats to the United States and its allies and ensure that capabilities are adaptable; and Seek to lead expanded international efforts for missile defense with allies and partners that will provide pragmatic, cost-effective capability. The review determined that the United States possesses sufficient capability to defend the homeland against a ballistic missile attack from states such as North Korea or Iran for the foreseeable future. Moreover, it identified steps that will strengthen homeland defense in the years ahead. The advent of new sensor capabilities and the development of a comprehensive integrated plan for testing and evaluation will better enable us to understand, employ, and further improve BMD capabilities.

In policy pronouncements over the last two administrations, the protection of the American homeland was regularly identified as the first priority of U.S. missile defense efforts. Homeland missile defense today is provided by the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program and other elements of the larger Ballistic Missile Defense System. The limited defenses fielded today have advanced considerably since limited defensive operations began in late 2004, but nevertheless they remain too limited and too modest relative to emerging threats. The Missile Defense Agency’s path to improve the system may require additional effort to stay ahead of even limited missile threats. This report explains how the current system works, as well as current and potential plans to modernize the system, and the authors offer recommendations for future evolution of the system.