An analysis of some specific defense and space policy issues is conducted. This analysis is abstracted from a study of the specific technologies involved. An assessment of the impact of technological advancement on the military capability, space policy and arms control issues is proposed. As the exploitation of high technology has a lot of ramifications, the course focuses on some areas carefully chosen, based on the recent events, to illustrate the extent of the impact and to permit as wide-ranging a discussion as possible. Those issues cover areas of advanced imaging and target recognition capabilities; the military exploitation of new physical principles; the development of new capabilities in space for military or civilian exploitation, and the convolution of these new capabilities with the increasing technological demands of arms control. In all examples, the interaction between techno-logical progress and needs for policy changes (or emergence of policy dilemmas) are emphasized.
