As tonight’s unfolding #Ukraine tragedy underscores only too starkly—
—the @POTUS @JoeBiden Administration MUST PRESERVE (extended)#DETERRENCE 100% in the forthcoming #Nuclear Posture Review/#NPR.
Must avoid not only “#NoFirstUse/#NFU”—BUT ALSO “#SolePurpose”—road to perdition!
—the @POTUS @JoeBiden Administration MUST PRESERVE (extended)#DETERRENCE 100% in the forthcoming #Nuclear Posture Review/#NPR.
Must avoid not only “#NoFirstUse/#NFU”—BUT ALSO “#SolePurpose”—road to perdition!
https://twitter.com/AndrewSErickson/status/1459198843904528391
Virtue signaling is no substitute for #deterrence signaling!
The #NPR must avoid not only widely-dismissed “#NoFirstUse” (#NFU) language, but also the dangerous concept of “#SolePurpose.”
Text/graphics from @DeptofDefense 2021 #China #Military Power Report show key reasons why.
The #NPR must avoid not only widely-dismissed “#NoFirstUse” (#NFU) language, but also the dangerous concept of “#SolePurpose.”
Text/graphics from @DeptofDefense 2021 #China #Military Power Report show key reasons why.
“#SolePurpose” = unacceptably erosive/destabilizing, not a no-or-low-cost #VirtueSignaling sop to #ArmsControl idealism.
Would reduce credibility/#deterrent of @POTUS’s potential counters to massive #conventional offensives by #Russia/#China.
Tragic reminder tonight in #Ukraine
Would reduce credibility/#deterrent of @POTUS’s potential counters to massive #conventional offensives by #Russia/#China.
Tragic reminder tonight in #Ukraine
Key US allies—having forgone development of their own #nuclear weapons & relying existentially on US extended deterrence—fear precisely such contingencies + the erosion of US extended #deterrence that an unprecedented declaration of a “#SolePurpose” posture would risk.
#BadIdea!
#BadIdea!
Facing reality, & maintaining the viability of vital Alliances that @POTUS & his team so rightly emphasize in this #DecadeOfDanger, requires that the #Biden Administration not become the first ever to invoke “#SolePurpose” as declaratory policy in the new #Nuclear Posture Review.
In a so-obviously-dangerous world, where so much is at stake
—and so much is hanging in the balance [see #Ukraine]—
unilaterally taking options off the table would be the height of both folly & of #NationalSecurity malpractice.
bit.ly/NoSolePurpose
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—and so much is hanging in the balance [see #Ukraine]—
unilaterally taking options off the table would be the height of both folly & of #NationalSecurity malpractice.
bit.ly/NoSolePurpose
19fortyfive.com/2021/11/how-po…
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