The correct response to your post is that the people who know what is going on don’t talk, and the people who talk don’t know what they’re talking about.
You are correct.
Exactly correct. This DOD public relations push piece is advocating for some contractor’s ideas that probably have nothing to do with strategic nuclear weapons and the very real possibility that some idiot country thinks it can do a first strike without consequences— like their own total annihilation. They don’t need to have DOD making suggestions that we can’t do this... because we can, with far more deadly accuracy. Tactical nukes are available in every military service branch (excepting Coast Guard likely).
That old simplistic axiom sounds like it is right out of the 1800's.
Our national enemies today, however, know when people such the commander of our Air Force Global Strike Command and the Admiral who is director of strategic system do talk in public, they are almost certainly not offering up their game plan.
In any event, my two questions were directed not to high-ranking officials who do know, but to those like me out here on the sidewalk at the retail level for friendly speculation.
Very well stated. And that applies to anything classified or that should be kept a secret by private citizens and corporations.