You can read the National War College paper for free at: RyanMcBeth.Substack.com America’s nuclear strategy was built for a bipolar world dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union. That world no longer exists. Today, the United States must deter Russia, China, and North Korea while also accounting for hypersonic weapons, cyberattacks, space warfare, limited nuclear coercion, and the expiration of New START. In this video, I examine a National War College strategy paper proposing “Enhanced Deterrence” for this new multipolar nuclear era. The paper argues that America should preserve and modernize its existing strategic nuclear triad while building a smaller theater-level triad consisting of: • A nuclear sea-launched cruise missile • F-35s armed with a future medium-range standoff weapon • Ground-launched theater nuclear missiles where allied basing is politically and militarily
