Obrona przeciwrakietowa. Kilka istotnych kwestii

• Authors: Kupiecki Robert

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Ballistic Missile Defence: Selected Issues

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Ballistic missiles and ballistic missile defense have become over the recent decades not only a weapon bringing the certainty of achieving one’s military objectives at minimum costs and risks, but have also been an important political instrument, impacting both strategic relations among the superpowers, and the regional powers, too. The differences in approach to the issue resulted from uneven access to technology, the costs associated with developing appropriate military systems, and political factors (such as domestic policy, budget constraints, or membership in international alliances). These factors could respectively impede or facilitate the development of adequate defense and deterrence capabilities. The analysis of the BMD development process allows for several generalisations that should clarify the most common misconceptions accompanying the issue: the certainty that there exists, or can be quickly established, the actual capability of unlimited missile defense, both in terms of range of missile threats and defended targets, as well as the opinion that all of the existing problems can be solved by (the use of) modern technology, the development of which is constant and permanent. The development of the BMD capabilities always generates substantial costs necessary to build these capabilities, but the practical usefulness of the latter is often hard to be proven in light of relatively few cases when they are actually used in battlefield conditions. These problems, among others, raised in the essay, are of crucial importance for Poland in the process of developing its indigenous BMD capabilities.

Keywords

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Ballistic missiles

• Publisher: Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
• Journal: Sprawy Międzynarodowe
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 7-29

Contributors

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Kupiecki Robert