1、6 Forum / Hypersonic Missiles and Joint Warfighting JFQ 104, 1st Quarter 2022Analyzing the Potential Disruptive Effects of Hypersonic Missiles on Strategy and Joint WarfightingBy Bruce M. SugdenWill the potential widespread deployment and employment of hypersonic missiles be a disruptive development
2、 for strategy and military operations? That is, will a competitors use of hypersonic missiles undermine assumptions underlying the Department of Defense (DOD)s emerging global and regional concepts for joint warfighting, as well as under-mine widely held beliefs about strategic stability and how to
3、deter threats to Americas most vital interests?1 Will U.S. hypersonic missiles undermine the assumptions behind Russias and Chinas warfighting concepts and beliefs about deterrence, possibly allow-ing U.S. forces to enhance extant, or obtain new, warfighting advantages?There are conflicting assertio
4、ns about the implications of the United States, Russia, and China developing and deploying high-speed maneuvering weap-ons delivery systemsmore commonly referred to as hypersonic missiles (for the remainder of this article, hypersonic Bruce M. Sugden is a Research Analyst in the Joint Advanced Warfi