Dr. Wade L. Huntley is a visiting fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His publications on a variety of Asian and global security issues include articles in The Nonproliferation Review, Asian Survey, International Studies Quarterly, and Millennium: Journal of International Affairs. Dr. Huntley, formerly Director of the Peace and Security Program at ...

Wei-chin Lee is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University. His publications have appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including Asian Survey, Asian Perspective, Issues and Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Ocean Development and International Law, SAIS Review, Studies in Comparative Communism, and World Affairs. His most...

The Ballistic Mis sile Defense System (BMDS) is a phased arrangement of equipment that is designed to engage a limited number of ballistic missiles launched against the United States and her allies. A phased system is one that changes its characteristics over time. Although a system does not modify its characteristics within a phase, when the system departs one phase and enters another, the sys...

North Korea’s strategic weapons innovation system is exemplary of an authoritarian mobilization model. The top leadership prioritizes the program and mobilizes country’s science, technology, heavy industrial resources around key programs. Key to success are investments in a defense infrastructure that runs from basic research development applied R&D, product development, linked production capab...

National Miss ile Defens e If U.S. national missile defense (NMD) were only about countering ballistic missiles deployed by rogue states,1 then whether to deploy limited NMD would be a “normal” national security issue. The military-technical question would concern feasibility: Would the missile defense work against the small missile forces that a few states may eventually deploy? The military-p...

The problem of target assignment is crucial in the air defense operations, and the optimum target allocation scheme can greatly enhance the performance of the air defense missile weapon system. Based on the general mathematical model of the target assignment problem and the principle of assignment, this paper analyses cultural genetic algorithm (CGA) combined with the reversal operation, and pr...

This paper provides a management overview of a new joint Navy/Army millimeter wave (MMW) seeker technology development initiative. The goal of the program is to provide advanced seeker components for endoatmospheric interceptors for theater and strategic missile defense. The technologies are driven by requirements for low weight/volume interceptors, high interceptor and target velocities and a ...

against the range-dependent accuracy of the tracking radar measurements including range, elevation and bearing angles, a new hybrid adaptive kalman filter is proposed to enhance the performance of the radar aided strapdown inertial navigation system (ins/radar). this filter involves the concept of residual-based adaptive estimation and adaptive fading kalman filter and tunes dynamically the fil...