The sustained growth of Soviet power after the Cuban missile crisis challenged the entire spectrum of U.S. military capabilities.

The intercept, however, was widely interpreted as a demonstration of U.S. capabilities in response to the Chinese anti-satellite test a year earlier.

Our overview of U.S. capabilities for dealing with it thus begins with the nation's vast complex of law enforcement agencies.

"They had no understanding of U.S. military capability."

Space: The full spectrum of U.S. military capabilities depends on our space systems.

"We now have plenty of reason to trust U.S. organizing capabilities and public interest in the United States."

This drastically reduces the U.S. capability to project power into the western Pacific.

The Arrow system is being incorporated into U.S. anti-ballistic capability in Europe, they said.

Conversely, the U.S. strategic capability against Soviet territory is no less a threat.

Then they will want to verify U.S. nuclear capability in the ROK.