Comments on: STRATCOM Cancels Controversial Preemption Strike Plan http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/07/globalstrike.php Comments and analyses of important national and international security issues Fri, 25 May 2012 17:31:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Robert Salas http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/07/globalstrike.php/comment-page-1#comment-3687 Robert Salas Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:29:59 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/?p=169#comment-3687 Let us not kid ourselves, the military will always have nuclear weapons superiority until and unless there is the political will to take those weapons away from them. This obfuscation about strike plans is B.S. It is just their way of telling the public it is none of their business what they have in the way of nukes or how they will use them. <b>Reply: </b>I don't agree that it's about the military being bad. There is a wide range of views about the role of nuclear weapons within the military; it's far from all in uniform who agree with the current nuclear policy or posture. And some of the most worrisome thinking about nuclear weapons tend to come from civilian officials. To that end, I don't see information about strike plans as "obfuscation" but as often better indicators of what the policy actually means than vague policy statements. HK Let us not kid ourselves, the military will always have nuclear weapons superiority until and unless there is the political will to take those weapons away from them. This obfuscation about strike plans is B.S. It is just their way of telling the public it is none of their business what they have in the way of nukes or how they will use them.

Reply: I don’t agree that it’s about the military being bad. There is a wide range of views about the role of nuclear weapons within the military; it’s far from all in uniform who agree with the current nuclear policy or posture. And some of the most worrisome thinking about nuclear weapons tend to come from civilian officials. To that end, I don’t see information about strike plans as “obfuscation” but as often better indicators of what the policy actually means than vague policy statements. HK

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