US Military ‘Furiously’ Rewriting Nuclear Deterrence to Address Russia and China, STRATCOM Chief Says

Authored by defenseone.com and submitted by jorel43

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mrpickles on August 12nd, 2022 at 12:58 UTC »

Could this possibly be related to today's other headline?

Phssthp0kThePak on August 12nd, 2022 at 02:52 UTC »

MAD assumes it is a struggle to take over the world. If one side just destroys a single city, what should the response we be ? We are not going to commit suicide for a single European or Asian city. So how does it play out?

jorel43 on August 12nd, 2022 at 02:24 UTC »

Submission statement:

United States is trying to draft new strategies to deal with unprecedented threats that it has never faced in its history with two nuclear peer competitors. The United States faces an intellectual shortage when it comes to grand strategy and it's nuclear deterrent posture, which has atrophied since the end of the Cold war. According to Chas Richards The commander of US strategic command, The idea that smaller tactical nukes could be used in limited scenarios instead of thermonuclear war present a challenge, this is further exacerbated by the hypersonic rocketry capabilities of both China and Russia along with next generation nuclear warhead designs. Richards put forth to the Western Pacific strategic conference that the need to reinvigorate the intellectual capital for grand strategy is Paramount.