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GPALS
(redirected from Global Protection Against Limited Strikes)

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GPALSGlobal Protection Against Limited Strikes
GPALSGround Protection Against Limited Strike
GPALSGlobal Positioning and Location System
GPALSGrace Pearson Alumni Leadership Scholarship (University of Kansas; Lawrence, KS)
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Responding to this change in threat, President Bush announced that the DOD was refocusing the SDI program away from defending against a massive Soviet missile attack towards implementing a system known as Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS), designed to protect US forces overseas, US friends and allies, and the United States itself from accidental, unauthorized, and/or limited ballistic missile strikes.
Deterrence and space-based missile defense by Frederick, Lorinda A. / Air & Space Power Journal
The PEO for ASMD began as the PEO for Global Protection Against Limited Strikes.
Redstone Rocket (Jan. 20, 2005): Brig. Gen. Mike Cannon leads ... by Rogers, Pam / Defense AT & L
As such, Brilliant Pebbles became the key integrating element of a concept known as global protection against limited strikes (GPALS).
Space and missile defense by Baucom, Donald R. / Joint Force Quarterly
 
 
 
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