Defending Against Ballistic Missile Attacks: The Concept of Defensive Deterrence
Washington, DC: George C. Marshall Institute, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [8], 211, [5] pages. Figures. Map. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Index. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Part I: Defending Against Missiles. Part II: Strategic Background. Part III: Technical Background. James J. Frelk was the executive Director of the George C. Marshall Institute. He was formerly a National Security Affairs Analyst for the House Republican Study Committee and served as a liaison to the National Security Advisor. Glen E. Tait was a defense analysts at the George C. Marshall Institute and a specialist in International Relations. The George C. Marshall Institute (GMI) was a nonprofit conservative think tank in the United States. It was established in 1984 with a focus on science and public policy issues and was initially active mostly in the area of defense policy. The George C. Marshall institute was founded in 1984 by Frederick Seitz (former President of the United States National Academy of Sciences), Robert Jastrow (founder of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies), and William Nierenberg (former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography). The institute's primary aim was to play a role in defense policy debates, defending Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. In particular, it sought to defend SDI "from attack by the Union of Concerned Scientists, and in particular by the equally prominent physicists Hans Bethe, Richard Garwin, and astronomer Carl Sagan." The institute argued that the Soviet Union was a military threat. A 1987 article by Jastrow argued that in five years the Soviet Union would be so powerful that it would be able to achieve world domination without firing a shot. More