Future War and Counterproliferation

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Future War and Counterproliferation U.S. Military Responses to NBC Proliferation Threats

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Barry R. Schneider

Book Code: C6278

ISBN: 0-275-96278-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96278-4

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248 pages, maps, tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 2/28/1999

List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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[B]arry Schneider offers an excellent brief on the current situation and military options for dealing with nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) threats in the future battlespace.
—Marine Corps Gazette
Schneider provides some of the most impressive open-source maps situating.
—Military Review

Description: The United States faces a small number of rogue states that either have or are working to acquire weapons of mass destruction. These NASTIs, or NBC-Arming Sponsors of Terrorism and Intervention, include such states as North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Libya, and Syria. U.S. nonproliferation programs and policies have helped to keep this number small, but U.S. and allied counterproliferation programs are essential to reduce the danger. It is up to deterrence, active defenses, passive defenses, decontamination, and counterforce to turn enemy weapons of mass destruction into instruments of limited destructive effect. Warfighters will also have to adopt a different strategy and concept of operations in fighting an adversary that is so heavily armed. This strategy will feature a combination of deception, dispersion, mobility and maneuver, diffused logistics, remote engagement, missile defense bubbles, non-combatant evacuation operations, and large area decontamination. It will also involve upgrades to NBC passive defense measures and equipment, as well as a counterforce capability that can find and destroy a variety of adversary targets, including mobile launchers and deeply buried and hardened underground structures.

Table of Contents:

NASTIs: The Threat from Iraq
Other Bullies on Other Blocks
The Counterproliferation Initiative
Deterring Adversary NBC Attacks
Passive Defenses against Chemical and Biological Attacks
Theater Missile Defenses: Key to Future Operations
Offensive Action: A Viable Option?
Principles of War for the WMD Battlefield
Defeating the Enemy's Military Strategy
Index

LC Card Number: 98-26518

LCC Class: U793

Dewey Class: 327


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