The U.S. on the Way to Strategic Invulnerability

... Organization, which was renamed the Missile Defense Agency in 2002, and led to the creation of anti-missile systems such as Patriot PAC-3, Aegis BMD, THAAD and the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system. Work continues on a number of projects that use active ... ... published by the Institute for National Security Studies in 1996. In 1998, the idea was transformed into a separate concept of “ network-centric warfare ” in a paper by Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski and John J. Garstka. The concept envisaged integrating ...