In a recent paper, two researchers concluded that sanctions so far "have had the net effect of actually improving" North Korea's procurement capabilities for its weapons program.
The need for greater flexibility in the capabilities of weapons platforms is now paramount.
"We know, also, that there are groups of people, occasionally states, who trade the technology and capability for such weapons," he said.
The creation of a civil liberties panel was one of dozens of recommendations in the final report of the 17-member commission, known formally as the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, which was assisted by the RAND Corporation.
To do so, "explicit national security guidance and defense policy is needed to direct development of doctrine, concepts of operations and capabilities for space, including weapons systems that operate in space and that can defend assets in orbit and augment air, land and sea forces," the report said.
Military leaders point out that potential adversaries of the U.S. have acquired increasingly sophisticated "anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities," which is Pentagon-speak for weapons and technologies that threaten the United States' freedom to enter, maneuver within, and defend the global commons "of the air, sea, cyberspace, and space".
He is also a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and later headed the Gilmore Commission, a congressional panel that advised Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on domestic capabilities for responding to terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction.
The Eurofighter, its replacement, has no capability for carrying such weapons.
Have airsoft guns for weapons.
B. Upgrading Capabilities for Reporting on Fisheries Statistics.
