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Tables of Contents for Space Weapons
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
iii
Figures
ix
Tables
xiii
Summary
xv
Acknowledgments
xxv
Abbreviations
xxvii
Introduction
1
4
Purpose
1
1
Scope
2
1
Organization
3
2
Background
5
18
History
5
10
Early Rocketry
5
1
Satellite Feasibility Studies
6
2
Dawn of the Space Age
8
1
Bombardment Satellites
9
3
Defenses
12
1
ABM Treaty
13
1
The Strategic Defense Initiative
14
1
Post-Cold War
15
2
Current U.S. Policy and Plans
15
2
Legal Considerations
17
1
Space Treaties
18
2
Arms Control Treaties
20
1
Other Treaties
21
2
Space Weapons Kinds and Capabilities
23
28
Types of Space Weapons
23
1
Directed-Energy Weapons
24
12
General Characteristics
24
2
Targets
26
1
Medium
27
1
Weapon
28
3
Basing
31
1
Example: Laser for Missile Targets
31
5
Mass-to-Target Weapons
36
15
General Characteristics
36
1
Kinetic-Energy Weapons Above the Atmosphere
37
3
Kinetic-Energy Weapons Against Terrestrial Targets
40
5
Conventional Weapons Against Terrestrial Targets
45
6
Employment
51
16
Employment
53
7
Functions and Tasks
53
4
Component and Sequence
57
3
Command
60
7
What Is Commanded
61
2
How They Are Commanded
63
2
Who Commands Them
65
2
How Might the United States Acquire Space Weapons?
67
18
How Might the United States Decide?
67
10
Deliberate Decisions to Acquire
68
7
Incidental Decisions to Acquire
75
2
Assuming a Decision to Acquire, How Might Transition Occur?
77
8
Incremental Decision
77
2
Monolithic Decision
79
1
Scope, Sequence, and Visibility of Implementation
80
1
Consequences
81
4
How Might Others Acquire Space Weapons?
85
16
Peer Competitor
86
4
Definition
87
1
Decision
88
1
Transition
89
1
Friend or Ally
90
4
Definition
91
1
Capability
91
1
Decision
92
1
Transition
93
1
Neither Ally nor Adversary
94
2
Definition
94
1
Capability
94
1
Decision
95
2
Transition
97
Nonpeer Adversary
96
2
Nonstate Coalition
98
1
Summary
98
3
Conclusion
101
8
Advantages
101
2
Access and Reach
101
1
Responsiveness
102
1
Distance
103
1
Difficulty of Defending Against Them
103
1
Limitations
103
3
Static Defense
104
1
Stable, Observable, Predictable Orbits
104
1
Logistic Expense
104
1
Large Numbers
105
1
Legal Consequences
106
1
Uses and Implications
106
3
Appendix A Space-Based Directed-Energy Weapons
109
22
Appendix B Kinetic-Energy Space Weapons
131
42
Appendix C Natural Meteoroides as Weapons
173
12
Appendix D Ballistic Missile Defense Countermeasures
185
4
Bibliography
189
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