By: Joe Buff

Joe Buff — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:37:53 +0000

Dr. Trexel’s thorough and cogent article is an important contribution to how to best rapidly reconstruct what POTUS Nixon called Strategic Sufficiency, which McGiffin’s and Lowther’s overall concept of “Dynamic Parity” effectively updates into the multipolar and multi-rogue realpolitik of Cold War II, now underway. Specifically, regional triads would extend America’s nuclear deterrent from strategic level at intercontinental ranges and H-bomb yields into more balanced forward deployed weaponry as well, in both Europe and Asia, with warhead yields covering the key current escalation-ladder spectrum GAP from under 100 kt “conventional” fission bombs down to parity with Russia’s “clean mini-nukes” with yields well under 1kt. This great suggestion would close a dangerous gap in the U.S.’s ability to meet and answer armed aggression at ALL levels of intensity from conventional-only through to thermonuclear — the only real way to sustain effective deterrence that most strongly avoids any such large shooting wars to begin with. Make no mistake, freedom’s adversaries look for and will exploit every chink in our armor. A serious tactical nuclear disadvantage (extreme NON-parity) in Europe, and a virtual lack of ANY low-yield nuclear forces forward deployed in Asia, is inviting impending military and peacekeeping disaster. Thank you, Dr. Trexel.

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By: Joe Buff