A static display of intercontinental ballistic missiles at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., front gate the evening of April 4, 2012. From left are the Peacekeeper, the Minuteman III and the Minuteman I. The planet Venus is visible in the sky above the Minuteman missiles and Jupiter is visible to the left of the Minuteman I. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Bloomberg: The Future of Nuclear Weapons and the Next Great War
A Q&A with Elbridge Colby about how the U.S. prepares for the global conflicts of 2070 and beyond.
I spend a great deal of my life thinking about nuclear weapons. You can imagine I'm murder at a cocktail party. As the Cold War faded, and the possibility of a nuclear holocaust with it, people like me were considered yesterday’s news. Now, as the world enters a renewed era of great-power competition, I like to think we were simply prescient.
If so, there was a whole lot of prescience on display at the Council on Foreign Relations last month at an event aptly titled “Do Nuclear Weapons Matter?” It featured a lively and intelligent debate between Nina Tannenwald of Brown University and Elbridge Colby, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security. She took the “no” side and he took the “yes.” While I like to maintain a journalistic objectivity, there may be a clue to my bias in that I decided to interview him.
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WNU Editor: I am one of those who always finds it hard to believe that people are actually thinking of wars 50 years from now and beyond.
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And as the few survivors finally manage to crawl out of their safe bunker and view the absolute destruction, the general amongst them, with a knowing smile on his face will say smugly "Well, now its a whole new ballgame".
Says better red than dead.
Always the coward.
I've sailed the South China Sea on a merchantman. There were no pirates back then and no threatening Communists.
Freedom of Navigation is the life blood commerce. Without commerce there is no decent standard of living. Transportation by water is the cheapest form of transportation.
For the Chinese to threaten Freedom of Navigation is to threaten the economies of all the countries of whole Western Pacific and beyond.
I've also been on a warship in that situation. So I have had skin in the game as Obama would say unlike a worthless socialist, who had a cush 9 to 5 job.
There is an admiral on a carrier not a general, but can be expected from a libtard. Nothing can be expected from such a shit for brains coward.
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