M-A-D.

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SUDDENLY, out-of-nowhere it seems, EVERYONE is talking about nuclear warfare. That cannot be a good sign.

From the Internet web site isegoria.net portions as extracted and posted March 6th, 2022.

"US nuclear deterrence extends no further than the most forward US soldier"

"Jacob Stoil shares seven strategic lessons from the first days of the war in Ukraine. The first two are sobering"

* Lesson 1: "The logic of nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction has not changed. Throughout the Cold War, the threat of nuclear war kept the nuclear powers from engaging directly." 

"Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender"

* Lesson 2: "US nuclear deterrence extends no further than the most forward US soldier. This lesson follows from the first."

Within the up-to-date context of the Ukraine Conflict that "most forward" American soldier not merely confined to those "boots-on-the-ground"? Extends to aviators patrolling a no-fly zone or naval vessels in the Blacks Sea?

As for the remaining five "strategic lessons" devoted readers to the blog will just have to read the rest of the article for themselves. I strongly encourage them to do so.

coolbert.