Email this article American non-nuclear missiles, regional missile defense systems and the collapse of the INF Treaty
- Authors: Krivolapov O.O.1
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Affiliations:
- Georgy Arbatov Institute for the U.S. and Canada studies
- Issue: No 3 (2025)
- Pages: 7-19
- Section: International relations
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0869-0499/article/view/313892
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869049925030017
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/kagnhh
- ID: 313892
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Abstract
The U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty and the return of “great power competition” are among the factors that have ensured Washington’s development of long-range non-nuclear offensive weapons. In turn, the development of regional missile defense has been going on in parallel since the 1990s. The purpose of this article is to determine the specifics of the relationship between U.S. policies on the development of non-nuclear offensive missiles and regional missile defense. This study is necessary to understand the prospects for development of the segments of U.S. military policy responsible for projecting American military power in key regions. A thorough review is provided of three levels of integration of offensive and defensive missile systems: doctrinal, programmatic, technical. It is concluded that the relationship under study began at the level of doctrinal documents of the U.S. military and political leadership, and then proceeded more at the technical level than at the programmatic one.
About the authors
O. O. Krivolapov
Georgy Arbatov Institute for the U.S. and Canada studies
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Email: o.krivolapov@iskran.ru
Moscow, Russia
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