There was an astonishing amount of blindness and ignorance in his writing.
A tour de force of neocon baloney.
There is the X-MAD theory. That is, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) kept the peace between the US and the Soviet Union. eXtended-MAD would intentionally recreate this “unthinkable” idea, making third world nuclear exchanges unthinkable to the combatants, while importantly preventing the escalation of the nuclear exchange.
An essential part of X-MAD is that the US keeps a stock of neutron bombs on hand. Neutron bombs explode in the air, and shower the ground below with high speed neutrons, killing all life, but leaving goods and structures untouched.
For example, say Pakistan attacked India with a nuclear missile. The US would tell India to stand down for some hours, while the US detonated neutron bombs all over Pakistan. Then the now depopulated Pakistan would be given to India as reparations.
Of course, the US would have to threaten both India and Pakistan about this ahead of time. And that is where the “unthinkable” part happens.
The Pakistan government may truly not give a damn about its people, as long as they can smite their hated enemy. So even neutron bombs might not frighten them. But what *would* frighten them is the idea that ALL of their STUFF and their land would then be given to their hated enemy.