Dealing with the Threat of Cruise Missiles

Introduction: Cruise-missile Proliferation - Strategic Context and Possible Consequences; Defence against Cruise Missiles - The Military Challenge; Meeting the Cruise-missile Proliferation Threat - The Policy Challenge; Argument in Brief. Chapter 1: Technological Challenges of Acquiring LACMS; Key Enabling Technologies; Basic Prerequisites for Cruise-missile Development; Country-specific Proliferation Potential; Foreign Assistance - Still the Chief Factor. Chapter 2: Alternative Ways to Acquire LACMs; Converting ASCMs into LACMs; Converting Unarmed UAVs into LACMs; Converting Very Light Manned Aircraft into Armed UAVs; Acquiring LACMs from Industrial Suppliers. Chapter 3: Motivations and Constraints Affecting the Pace and Scope of Proliferation; Motivations to Acquire Missiles; Constraints Affecting Missile Acquisition. Chapter 4: Defending Against Cruise Missiles; Cold War Legacies; Current and Prospective Shortcomings in Cruise-missile Defence; Hedging against Cruise-missile Threats; Enter Homeland Defence. Chapter 5: Strengthening Non-proliferation Policy; An MTCR Primer 78; Assessing the MTCR's Effectiveness; Strengthening the Regime; Reinventing the MTCR - A Global Missile Treaty; Conclusion - Prospects for Cruise-missile Proliferation; Dealing with the Threat. Appendix: Selected Cruise-missile Systems and Programmes.