VanHerck highlights at #smdsymposium 2021:
-Defining integrated deterrence: “Deterrence is created every day using all levers of influence”
-To disrupt US power projection, peer adversaries are “clearly focused on [striking] the homeland…It’s in their doctrine”
-Defining integrated deterrence: “Deterrence is created every day using all levers of influence”
-To disrupt US power projection, peer adversaries are “clearly focused on [striking] the homeland…It’s in their doctrine”
-China recently demonstrated “very advanced” hypersonic glide systems, says will not go into further detail
-Missile Defense and Nuclear Posture Reviews “cannot be separate”
-Missile Defense and Nuclear Posture Reviews “cannot be separate”
-“It’s unrealistic and unaffordable to think we can defend everything”
-Homeland defense should move further left and “into the information space” at the level of competition
-Homeland defense should move further left and “into the information space” at the level of competition
Bottom lines:
-Rebalance strategy, budgets from overwhelming focus on kinetic conflict to other levers more useful for competition
-Peer adversaries have the capability and intent to strike homeland to deny US power projection/forward posture
-Rebalance strategy, budgets from overwhelming focus on kinetic conflict to other levers more useful for competition
-Peer adversaries have the capability and intent to strike homeland to deny US power projection/forward posture
-Kinetic attacks will happen under nuclear threshold, nonkinetic attacks under conflict threshold
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