This article originally appeared in Air University’s The Wright Stuff. A Nuclear Apologist on the Nuclear Atheists By Mark Stout Perhaps you’ve heard from the Harvard Business Review or some other such weighty source that “the best way to predict the future is to create it.” Such advice sounds great until you consider that failure [...]
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The New Nuclear Atheists
Posted: July 6, 2010 in Global Zeros, National Security Strategy, Nuclear, Nuclear Apologists, Nuclear Atheists, Nuclear Proliferation, Realism, StrategyTags: National Security Strategy, Nuclear, Nuclear Proliferation
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The Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) is a legislatively mandated review of DoD strategy and priorities. Some in Congress feel the QDR has been used to avoid DoD transparency and accountability and that an honest review of fundamental national security issues will not be addressed in the QDR, but rather, that the QDR will rather be [...]
Obama Puts Arms Control at Core of New Strategy
Posted: July 15, 2009 in Arms Control, Nuclear Weapons, StrategyI’m not sure why the WSJ ran this article. It will not provide any profound insights and contains a number of non sequiturs. The title is eye-catching (well, to some), but the lead paragraph immediately launches into nuclear deterrence, which we know from our studies is not the same as arms control. The article’s purpose [...]
