Comments on: Arming for Deterrence: A Nuclear Posture for the Next Decade https://globalsecurityreview.com/arming-for-deterrence-a-nuclear-posture-for-the-next-decade/ A division of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS) Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:32:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Chris Bosquillon https://globalsecurityreview.com/arming-for-deterrence-a-nuclear-posture-for-the-next-decade/#comment-2987 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:47:41 +0000 https://globalsecurityreview.com/?p=31863#comment-2987 An important aspect of this proposed Nuclear Posture Review is that it also provides actionable insights for allies, by advocating for a U.S. policy of strengthening regional deterrence. This responsible commitment is further meant to avoid risky proliferation among Indo-Pacific and NATO allies.

]]> By: gsharpe https://globalsecurityreview.com/arming-for-deterrence-a-nuclear-posture-for-the-next-decade/#comment-2981 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:52:52 +0000 https://globalsecurityreview.com/?p=31863#comment-2981 The value proposition: This concept treats nuclear deterrence as what it is: a fight over adversary belief. Deterrence lives or dies in their mind, fear of catastrophic consequence, not in our mirror-imaged assumptions about “rational restraint.” That’s why the authors reject minimum deterrence: it advertises hesitation and creates narrative seams autocracies can pry open with deception.

In a multipolar nuclear age with expanding rival arsenals and fading treaties, influenced attacks will aim first at confidence, our thresholds, our second-strike survivability, and especially allied faith in extended deterrence. When allies doubt, proliferation pressure rises and deterrence erodes, and that is exactly the leverage opponents want.

The authors aren’t just offering their view of posture guidance, they are giving America its own playbook for strategic stability. It shows how to keep perception aligned with reality so autocracies can’t manufacture miscalculation at nuclear speed.

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