American responses to a tactical nuclear weapon aren't just wipe out life on earth or roll over.
As we are seeing there are political, economic, and social levers that can be pulled.
Beyond that, the cyber domain is highly active. Both Russia and the US have advanced cyber capabilities -- look at Stuxnet.
While I don't doubt that Putin is crazy enough to believe this nuclear deescalation strategy, I find it hard to imagine that somehow this writer at Vox has thought it through but it somehow escaped the notice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
American responses to a tactical nuclear weapon aren't just wipe out life on earth or roll over.
As we are seeing there are political, economic, and social levers that can be pulled.
Beyond that, the cyber domain is highly active. Both Russia and the US have advanced cyber capabilities -- look at Stuxnet.
While I don't doubt that Putin is crazy enough to believe this nuclear deescalation strategy, I find it hard to imagine that somehow this writer at Vox has thought it through but it somehow escaped the notice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.