Posted on 03/27/2017 12:03:18 PM PDT by drewh
You sound like a lot of guys who never served. But I know that can't be true, right?
Maybe that’s were the 10 trillion went.
LOL And you served in which branch? From when until when? You sound like a lot of armchair, keyboard warriors -
Born June of '55. Missed the draft by two months.
And your point is... ?
1. That is a shockingly stupid idea.
2. Discussing shockingly stupid ideas in public is even dumber than just having those ideas in private.
I smell a RINO behind this story.
I was thinking the same thing.
McCain the Insane would be leading the charge, waving his sword in the air.
The blame is not unfounded; we may be modernizing the Minuteman Force and upgrading the SLBM warheads, but the russkies have been developing new ICBMs like the SATAN II.
This is the theme of the writer of the article:
American nukes bad --- no mention of the continuous upgrading
of Russian nukes since all of "START" treaties.
"The tide must be turned."
That's right America. You're starting to defend yourself too well. America must stop and let Russia, the Chicoms and any other enemy catch up.
America must be fair to them. (Whine, whine, cry)
All of the arms control treaties America has been tricked
into signing should be repudiated! Full steam ahead with ballistic missile defense and the modernization of America's nuclear forces.
The author forgets the arms race ran the USSR into the ground, causing its complete collapse.
“I am over a half century old and we’ve been at war every day of my life. “
Same here. Some parts were scarier than others.
Nothing like letting the whole world know!
Ping
>Im so glad were publicly discussing our strategic military plans.
It’s boasting trying to hide our weakness. We’re not even sure our nukes still work and Obama failed for 8 years to restart nuke production despite spending a bundle on it. Turns out inviting green advisors into the process made it impossible to build nukes.
Russia on the other hand had modernized the major of their stockpile, rebuilt their civil defense/shelter program, and is a lot more ready for nuclear war than we are.
>What is the wisdom in a strategic decapitation?
No one left to make decisions and exercise authority over surviving forces who,have predetermined responses they are ordered to launch?
In a system not known for individual initiative
Oddly the Russians were much more likely to give local missile units authority to fire than we were during the cold war. I’m not quite sure as to the reason why.
Maybe it was their insurance against strategic decapitation
I would think they have some type of “ Dead man switch” to make sure that if their national leadership is eliminated, the world ends in fire ( not ice)
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