Strategic Deterrence

Nuclear Posture Review

Uncle Sam Is Waving The Nuclear Club

On October 27, 2022, the Joe Biden administration released a declassified version of its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). There is now a general part in the public domain from which certain conclusions can be drawn. As the publication, posted on the Federation of American Scientists website, states, “In terms of […]

B-2 Spirit

Tactical Nuclear Fantasists

Bogeyman politics tends to be flatly unimaginative.  The image of the nuclear-mad Russian President, counting his diminishing options, has caught the imagination of press and propaganda outlets across the West.  Will “Mad Vlad” go the distance and deploy a nuclear weapon in Ukraine? Certainly, his rhetoric suggests the possibility.  Vladimir […]

Sarmat misile

Why Ukraine Referendum Is A Big Deal

The referendum on September 23-27 in the Donbass and southern Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine on their accession to Russian Federation is, prima facie, an exercise of the right of self-determination by the native population who reject the western-backed regime change in Kiev in 2014 and the ascendancy of […]

Maidan 2014

Handling International Crises: From JFK to Biden 

There are significant parallels between the international crises in Cuba in 1962 and Ukraine today.  Both involved intense confrontations between the USA and the Soviet Union or Russia. Both involved third party countries on the doorstep of a major power.  The Cuban Missile Crisis threatened to lead  to WW3,  just […]