{"id":57770,"date":"2021-05-11T06:03:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T11:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57770"},"modified":"2021-05-11T06:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T11:03:32","slug":"spending-more-on-nukes-stratcoms-nuclear-death-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57770","title":{"rendered":"Spending More on Nukes: STRATCOM\u2019s Nuclear Death Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/11\/spending-more-on-nukes-stratcoms-nuclear-death-wish\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spending More on Nukes: STRATCOM\u2019s Nuclear Death Wish<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_135725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-135725\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2021\/05\/B-52_and_B-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135725\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-135725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph Source: Sgt Samuel Rogers (USAF\/Barksdale Air Force Base) \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Being sufficiently able at your job is a good thing.\u00a0 But beware the trappings of zeal.\u00a0 When it comes to the business of retaining an inventory for humanity\u2019s annihilation, the zealous should be kept away.\u00a0 But there Admiral Charles Richard was in April this year, with his siren calls,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Richard04.20.2021.pdf\">urging<\/a>\u00a0the US Senate to consider a simple proposition.\u00a0 \u201cSustainment of modernization of our modern nuclear forces \u2026 has transitioned from something we should do, to something we must do.\u201d\u00a0 As Commander of the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM), he was aching to impress the Senate Committee on Armed Services that the nuclear deterrent was there to be polished and improved.<\/p>\n<p>Much of his address as part of the Posture Statement Review should be treated as the conventional lunacy that comes with that cretin-crusted field known as nuclear deterrence.\u00a0 \u201cPeace is our profession\u201d remains the somewhat obscene motto of STRATCOM, and it is a peace kept by promising the potential extinction of the human species.<\/p>\n<p>For the Admiral, strategic deterrence is the holy of holies.\u00a0 If it fails, \u201cwe are prepared to deliver a decisive response, decisive in every possible way.\u201d\u00a0 This decisiveness will be achieved \u201cwith a modern resilient, equipped, and trained combatant-ready force.\u201d\u00a0 To avoid the failure of such deterrence also required revisiting \u201ca critical forgotten lesson that\u00a0<em>deterrence operates continuously from peacetime, through the gray zone, worldwide, across all domains, and into conflict<\/em>\u201d [Richard\u2019s emphasis].<\/p>\n<p>The fate of the US (Richard humourlessly calls it safety and security) is indelibly linked to an \u201ceffective nuclear triad; a reliable and modern nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) architecture; and a responsive nuclear weapons infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spending More on Nukes: STRATCOM\u2019s Nuclear Death Wish Photograph Source: Sgt Samuel Rogers (USAF\/Barksdale Air Force Base) \u2013\u00a0CC BY 2.0 Being sufficiently able at your job is a good thing.\u00a0 But beware the trappings of zeal.\u00a0 When it comes to the business of retaining an inventory for humanity\u2019s annihilation, the zealous should be kept away.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15948,5493,581,2583,17125,827,17126],"class_list":["post-57770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-binoy-kampmark","tag-counterpunch","tag-nuclear-war","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-stratcom","tag-united-states","tag-us-strategic-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57771,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57770\/revisions\/57771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}