Commentary: Establishing and Re-Establishing Modern Deterrence
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Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley
Content and Production Editor at Angle of Attack
Bomb dropper, High Desert dweller, baller.
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Deterrence exists in the mind, not necessarily the battlefield. Nations posture against each other attempting to influence actions and perceptions. For many years, airpower has been a powerful tool of deterrence strategies. But what happens when it doesn’t work.  What happens when deterrence fails? Deterrence is the art of influencing adversary actions before they occur, […]

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Is Speed the New Stealth?
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Nicole Petrucci
Editor-in-Chief at Angle of Attack
Space cadet, combat knitter, kitty lover.
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Recently at Angle of Attack, a journal of Air Power Strategy, feature author Chris Buckley identified the underlying assumptions of why the nuclear-armed cruise missile was and remains necessary. While Buckley claims this new cruise missile must be nuclear-armed, there is a pathway to a new cruise missile that will achieve all of the strategic […]

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Nuclear Assumptions and Cruise Missiles
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Christopher Buckley
Content and Production Editor at Angle of Attack
Bomb dropper, High Desert dweller, baller.
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Earlier this week, Secretary Clinton made a statement about the Pentagon’s plan to upgrade the nuclear arsenal. “The last thing we need, are sophisticated cruise missiles that are nuclear armed.”[1] The National Interest was quick to pile on, and declare that nuclear cruise missiles are “relics of the past.”[2] But are they? Hillary Clinton spent […]

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