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Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One: Can Two Nuclear Powers Fight a Conventional War?
The Pentagon just wargamed that scenario as part of its effort to determine what it needs for 21st-century deterrence.
As the U.S. military reviews the makeup of its nuclear arsenal, among the questions being asked is: Can two nuclear powers fight a conventional war without going nuclear?
Just last week, this scenario was among the mock battles when U.S. Strategic Command ran its annual Global Thunder nuclear wargame, Army Brig. Gen. Greg Bowen, the command’s deputy director of global operations, said Thursday at the Defense One Summit.
“It gets into a very difficult calculus,” Bowen said. “It’s clearly a place that we don’t want to go.”
That’s because when one country begins to lose a conventional battle, there is a temptation to use those nuclear weapons.
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WNU Editor: In such a scenario .... where two nuclear powers are fighting a conventional war .... the temptation to use one's nuclear weaponry before the other ones does would be irresistible. Bottom line .... in such a war nuclear weapons will be used.
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The United States lacks the conventional military capabilities to successfully confront major military powers like Russia and China. If such a conflict were to come v about, the US would have little choice but to use nuclear weapons.
Candidate Trump was correct to question whether or not the US arsenal would work if needed. One can only hope the arsenal and the means to deliver it has been upgraded as POTUS Trump seemed to suggest. Were it not for a nuclear deterrent or the possibility of such a deterrent it seems unlikely the world's major powers would take America seriously.
22 minutes was the Cold War "record" for a Conventional war in Europe, not going Nuclear.
It would be "interesting" to see how long this recent exercise lasted.
Tom Clancy put forth a credible scenario in Red Storm Rising. One could say almost prophetic.
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