Bad development: Biden revises Nuclear Doctrine for escalating reasons - Russia-NATO crisis is coming
2/7/22
By War News24/7 (translated form Greek)
Under the headline " The Ukrainian Crisis May Lead to a Nuclear War Due to the New US Strategy", a well-known American media reveals that US President Biden will soon review the country's Nuclear Doctrine!
The revelation comes as a shock as analysts and former senior members of Stratcom say the Nuclear Doctrine is being revised to offer the US president a number of escalation options , including " small-scale nuclear strikes."
NATO Statements: Fears of Nuclear Crisis with Russia - The Greatest Military Development in Europe!
"The crisis in Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war"
"Three thousand American troops are heading to Europe, while thousands more are on standby in response to the Kremlin's threats against Ukraine. President Joe Biden is contemplating further action, and as US-Russia tensions escalate, a new, previously unknown US nuclear war plan lurks in the background.
For the first time, the US nuclear plan fully integrates non-nuclear weapons as an equal player. Non-nuclear options include the realm of cyber warfare, including cyber-attacks against key societal functions such as electricity or communications.
"They want to give Biden a lot of options"
The autonomous nuclear option was integrated with the other options: nuclear war, conventional war and unconventional. The latter option includes the new field of cyber warfare.
In the eyes of Nuclear Strategy Generals, the possibility of multiple options is a more effective way of preventing the president from having several options outside of nuclear war.
But experts warn that this new flexibility can confuse an opponent. A series of non-nuclear movements can resemble the initial preparations of a first strike, causing exactly what is prevented.
"New Nuclear War Plan - Abolish Strategic Stability"
In the new nuclear war plan, the integration of all, military and non-military weapons into the US arsenal is identified as the new deterrent.
"Strategic stability" - the only goal of preventing the use of nuclear weapons, which has kept nuclear weapons covered for more than 75 years - has become obsolete.
If there is a military confrontation with Ukraine on the battlefield (!!), it would be the first test of this new approach to war.
STRATCOM released Change 1 on the CONPLAN 8010
To codify these changes, on April 30, 2019, the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) issued Amendment 1 to CONPLAN 8010, "Strategic Deterrence and Force Employment", a major modification of a war plan first issued almost before a decade.
The new plan - with more than 1,100 pages - re-focuses on the "competition of the great powers" and the four major threats: Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Russia remains and is once again the most difficult adversary, with its respective nuclear arsenal and openly aggressive stance against Europe and the United States.
Biden to issue 'Nuclear Doctrine Review'
Hans Christensen, a nuclear weapons expert with the American Federation of Scientists, discovered the existence of the new war plan through the Freedom of Information Act. Until now, its existence was unknown.
"The Biden government is going to issue a 'Nuclear Doctrine Review' in the coming weeks and is expected to say very little," he told Newsweek.
The reason is that the composition of the nuclear arsenal - bombers, surface-to-air missiles and submarines - is not expected to change, with current $ 550 million modernization programs continuing with only minor modifications.
"As we await the revision of the nuclear doctrine, the irony is that nuclear weapons are now inseparable from the full range of strategic implications," says Kristensen.
"Nuclear and non-nuclear options integrated"
"Nuclear stability is still based on the Cold War model of invulnerable nuclear submarines that cannot be destroyed in a surprise Russian first strike," says Kristensen.
"War planning today is being modified to provide more non-nuclear options, but options that could be mistaken for provocative by Russia and even worse, as a result of a US first strike.
"This integration of nuclear and non-nuclear, and the focus on 'effects' rather than disaster," says Kristensen, "erodes the firewall between conventional and nuclear war and creates more escalation paths."
This new strategy gives the President more decision-making options. Automatic nuclear retaliation is no longer the only option. Implementing the new strategy requires bombers and submarines that can survive through dispersal and even deception.
When he was commander of STRATCOM, General John Hyten hinted at this new approach, saying that when he took control of the Omaha-based administration, what surprised him most "were the flexible choices that [were] in all plans…"
"If something bad happens in the world, " Hayten said, " and there will be a response and I will call the Secretary of Defense and the President. I actually have a range of very flexible options from the conventional level to a large-scale nuclear attack." "I can advise the President to give him options for what he would like to do."
"Small-scale nuclear attacks"
A former STRATCOM planner who spoke to Newsweek says:
"Nuclear war no longer necessarily has to start with a missile strike.
It is more likely to look like a coordinated attack on the Management and Control structures - from early warning to communications for decision making.
The shift from a purely nuclear dogma to a "multi-sectoral" war dogma, while intended to give the President more "room for maneuver" and reduce the likelihood of a nuclear war, actually threatens overall Strategic Stability.
"Many of the DPOs in 8010 [the war plan] cover Phase Zero," the period of the six-phase war plan called "environmental shaping."
"These are capabilities that are already there and could also signal the US readiness to strike really first, even if not with nuclear weapons."
"I'm not saying the United States should return to Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). The new Doctrine requires serious attention. The integration of non-nuclear capabilities has opened up new possibilities.
"All of this facilitates, in the eyes of decision-makers, the idea that small-scale nuclear attacks can occur without further escalation into a full-blown nuclear war."
Source:
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