[GIJoel]

Poohbah,

Someone once told me, "you don't debate liars, you expose them." Given your total commitment to debunk any possibility of continuity between the time of the Cold War and the present, I'm getting dangerously close to putting you into the very category my friend warned me about. If you want to debate the merits of the piece, then do so with a desire to get at the truth. Sweeping and condescending statements only cause me to doubt your credibility.

[Poohbah]

Someone once told me, "you don't debate liars, you expose them."

Interesting, considering that many of the footnotes of your original post refer to the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, which has a long-standing record of making stuff up, as long as said stuff might convince people to buy gold. When I was in the Marines, the joke was that "McAlvany's predicted 27 of the last zero nuclear wars."

In the article that you started the thread with, the sole back-up for a claim that the Russians are expanding their nuclear forces is a pair of McAlvany articles; a quick check of this link shows that Russian strategic warhead totals have dropped to less than half their Cold War peak, and that tactical warhead totals are down almost 90%...

What was that about exposing liars, dear sir?