Ground-Based Intermediate-Range Missiles in the Indo-Pacific : Assessing the Positions of U.S. Allies / JEFFREY W. HORNUNG.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hornung, Jeffrey W., 1975- author.

Contributor:

Project AIR FORCE (U.S.). Strategy and Doctrine Program

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Rand Corporation

United States. Department of the Air Force

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intermediate-range ballistic missiles--Government policy--United States.

Intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

Intermediate-range ballistic missiles--Asia--Evaluation.

Intermediate-range ballistic missiles--Indo-Pacific Region--Evaluation.

Security, International--Indo-Pacific Region.

Security, International.

Asia.

Indo-Pacific Region.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 59 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2022.

Summary:

When the United States withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019, it opened for itself the opportunity to develop and deploy ground-based missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 km-what this report calls ground-based intermediate-range missiles (GBIRMs). But the U.S. withdrawal also sparked a debate regarding where the United States could deploy such missiles. This became a critical topic in the Indo-Pacific because China was never a signatory to the INF Treaty, enabling it to develop a wide array of capabilities that the United States was prohibited from fielding. Considering this threat, the United States has been hoping to develop and deploy a new conventionally armed GBIRM to the Indo-Pacific, but how U.S. allies will respond to Washington's overtures to host GBIRMs is not clear. The author analyzes the likelihood of U.S. treaty allies in the Indo-Pacific region-Australia, Japan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and Thailand-hosting U.S. GBIRMs. Because these countries are unlikely to agree, the author also examines alternatives to permanently basing these missiles on allies' territories: (1) U.S. co-development of GBIRMs with and/or sales of GBIRMs to an ally for it to command and control, (2) U.S. deployment of GBIRMs to an allied territory in a crisis, (3) peacetime rotational deployment, and (4) deployment on Guam or one of the Compact of Free Association states. Because of drawbacks with each alternative, the author recommends a variation of the first: helping Japan develop an arsenal of ground-based anti-ship standoff missile capabilities.

Contents:

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Cases

Chapter Three: Alternatives to Permanent U.S. GBIRM Basing on Allies' Land

Chapter Four: Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from PDF document (title page: viewed April 29, 2022)

"Prepared for the Department of the Air Force"

"RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-59)

Description based on electronic resource

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

197740815X

9781977408150

OCLC:

1313808674