Thanks for the mention TankNetter.
With our vile Left in this nation, we should hold on to our government secrets much better than we do.
Just because our policies from 25 to 50 years ago are dated, we should still play close to the vest on such issues.
That’s my take on it.
Sure, but this stuff was taught openly in the elective national-security classes I took in undergrad in the late 1980s.
Which I didn’t mind, and don’t mind, because deeper explanation serves to undermine the Left’s emotional appeal. Nuclear war and the SIOP that governed how we’d wage it were very much statistically based. We knew the stats, as did the Soviets. The Left was great about crying over how many more warheads and launch platforms we had than were needed (in an emotional appeal for unilateral disarmament) but those numbers were easily justified by the statistics.
Letting the other side know how we planned to fight them was a great deterrant.