The Kill Chain

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1. killjoywashereSep 2023
   Read Christian Brose's Kill Chain: https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Chain-Defending-America-High-Tec...
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2. mcphailAug 2022
   If it hasn't been mentioned, check out The Kill Chain by Christian Brose. Obviously Anduril is great in this arena, but also Epirus on using microwave tech to eliminate these threats.
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3. zambon12Apr 2021
   While opionated Christian Brose's 'The Kill Chain' was an enlightening read for me. Interested if you have read it?
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4. thinkmassiveMar 2021
   Some books I recently enjoyed, mostly focused on the infosec aspect but still somewhat on topic:

   The Kill Chain, by Christian Brose

   Active Measures, by Thomas Rid

   Sandworm, by Andy Greenberg

   Fatal System Error, by Joseph Mann

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5. mrDmrTmrJFeb 2021
   Not sure why you're being downvoted, as you're completely right. Though China's fleet is the 'pacing threat' more so than Russia's.

   The single largest US Defense procurement goals is the ability to sink '400 ships in 48hours' as the key performance metric in a Taiwan defense scenario. [1]

   The authors are career academics who get press by being 'contrarian'. The argument they make in their paper (that this editorial is based on) is fundamentally a straw man. They compare ballistic missiles trajectories to hypersonic trajectories and conclude 'ballistic is faster', while ignoring they key point that hypersonic weapons are *conventional in US force posture (i.e. non-nuclear) compared to ballistic weapons.

   And they ignore that hypersonic trajectories are significantly harder to intercept, b/c of intercept timelines are governed by radar horizon issues and greater design cross range of hypersonic aerobodies.

   [1] See "The Kill Chain" https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Chain-Defending-America-High-Tec...

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6. 5986043handyMay 2020
   There's a book about this as well https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Chain-Defending-America-High-Tec...
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