Britain and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1942-2002

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780714685748
  • Weight: 560g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jun 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Britain was the first country to come under sustained ballistic missile attack, during 1944-45. Defence against ballistic missiles has been a persistent, if highly variable, subject of political policy and technical investigation ever since. The British Second World War experience of trying to counter the V-2 attacks contained many elements of subsequent responses to ballistic missile threats. After the war, a reasonably accurate picture of Soviet missile capabilities was not achieved until the early 1960s, by which time the problem of early warning had largely been solved. From the mid-1960s on, British attention shifted away from the development of the country's own defences towards the wider consequences of US and Soviet deployments. After the end of the Cold War there was renewed interest in a limited active-defence capability against Third World missile threats. This well-researched book is primarily aimed at students of post-war British foreign and defence policies, but will also be of interest to informed general readers.

Jeremy Stocker is Director of Studies at the Centre for Defence and International Security Studies (CDISS), a British independent defence think tank. He served in the Royal Navy for twenty years, specialising in air defense, before transferring to the Royal Naval Reserve in 1996. Dr. Stocker is the author of Britain and Ballistic Missile Defense 1942-2002 and is a regular contributor to academic and professional journals on both sides of the Atlantic.