"Every operational plan in the department and every other capability we possess rests on an assumption that strategic deterrence and in particular nuclear deterrence is holding" per @US_Stratcom's Adm Richard "If that fails, nothing else in the Dep. of Defense works as planned"
https://twitter.com/jseldin/status/1384502489907597312
US "facing two nuclear capable strategic peer adversaries at the same time, both of whom have to be deterred differently" per @US_Stratcom's Adm Richard "#Chinese & #Russia|n advances are eroding our conventional and strategic deterrence"
"#China in particular, I submit, cannot be considered anymore a lesser included case in this context" per @US_Stratcom's Adm Richard
"In the very near term, China will possess a credible nuclear triad..."
"In the very near term, China will possess a credible nuclear triad..."
"#China is capable of executing any plausible nuclear employment strategy regionally now, and will soon be able to do so at intercontinental ranges" per @US_Stratcom's Adm Richard
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