Nuclear Deterrent or Nuclear Bluff?

Nuclear Deterrent or Nuclear Bluff?

28 Jan 25
Posted by: Lt Gen Robert Fry
8 minutes, 53 seconds read
Message from the Editor

In the tradition of Herman Kahn, and with the Strategic Defence Review in mind, the author ‘thinks the unthinkable’ on the subject of Russian expansionism, US retrenchment, and the future of NATO. Originally published in The Article. A 10 minute read.

Sometimes, semantics is important. A Strategic Defence Review (SDR) has been commissioned by the Labour Government and the title, in itself, tells us something. This is not a Strategic Defence & Security Review that would examine all of the instruments of national power and therefore justify the descriptor Strategic. Rather, it is a limited examination of the hardware, people, doctrines and procedures that in extremis would allow us to prosecute war. While the focus is narrow, the methodology is broad. Instead of conducting the review inside the closed doors of the Ministry of Defence (MoD…

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