Happening tomorrow at 2:00pm ET!

Pleased to announce that LTG(r) Dan Karbler is joining the CSIS Missile Defense Project as a senior adviser and advisory board member. csis.org/news/lieutenan…

'The Israel-Iran air conflict presents an unprecedented success story for air and missile defense and highlights the use of these defenses to save lives, protect property, and reduce pressures on policymakers.'

More from CSIS Missile Defense: csis.org/analysis/iran-…

The last few months have seen the first combat employment of both SM-6 and now SM-3.

It’s unstated, but this probably was an SM-3 IB, versus a IIA.

The PB2025 budget request included a plan to zero out procuring the less expensive IB over the next few years.

That may need…

There’s some real mental gymnastics on display by those downplaying the role of air and missile defense following Iran’s attack.

Israeli AMD assets seem to have performed quite well. Along with aircraft, it appears to have provided significant damage limitation, escalation…

1. In cases like these, missile defense buys you a secret third option: of people not getting hurt.
2. 120 ballistic missiles. Launched from Iran, Iraq, must have been MRBM/TBM. So a big night for Arrow 2 & 3, SM-3, and maybe David's Sling?

Many know, but for those who don't. If you are interested in missiles and missile defenses and aren't following Masao Dahlgren you really should be.

New op-ed from me Breaking Defense on defense VC. I unpack what explanations I've gotten for the recent interest. And what a cover pic:

The JPO’s job will be to solve perhaps the hardest air and missile defense challenge to date—integrated fire control among just about every AMD system in our toolbox.

My first sporting clays with the CSIS Missile Defense team. (yes, I missed that one)

'Future missile threats are difficult to detect—defeating them will require elevated sensors, on aircraft or satellites, to track them at range.'

Read analysis from CSIS Missile Defense expert Masao Dahlgren: csis.org/analysis/getti…

“While analysis of adverse cost exchange ratios is a tempting and sometimes useful framework, it obscures both the complexity of air and missile defense engagements and the complicated value of air and missile defense.”

More from CSIS Missile Defense: csis.org/analysis/cost-…

From my report in December: “Less discussed are the area threats posed [to satellites] by nuclear explosions in space or at high altitudes.” This is why it’s so important to diversify the orbits of our defense satellite constellations.

Defense reporters: come for the analysis of cost vs value, but stay for the great table depicting what air and missile defense interceptors actually cost.

By ⁦Wes Rumbaugh⁩ ⁦CSIS Missile Defense⁩ csis.org/analysis/cost-…

Across Ukraine and the Middle East, thousands of missiles, drones, and aircraft have been shot down. Our own Wes Rumbaugh demystifies the debate on what that costs.

csis.org/analysis/cost-…

New from me in Breaking Defense. The forthcoming MDA/Space Development Agency launch is a major step for getting missile defense fire control capability into the constellation. Here are three more things to watch: