#Deterrence

Hot off the presses from DoD. Nuclear Deterrence! Some oddities follow...https://media.defense.gov/2020/Apr/06/2002275415/-1/-1/1/NUCLEAR-DETERRENCE-AMERICAS-FOUNDATION-AND-BACKSTOP-FOR-NATIONAL-DEFENSE.PDF 2/ China is going to double its nuclear ars
Read more
People....Making something that is already illegal "SUPER ILLEGAL" doesn't enhance deterrence....but it does give prosecutors the ability to charge more people with longer sentences.It doesn't help public safety and it
Read more
wtf is the airforce on? supercocaine? "ASYMMETRY OF WILLS""ESCALATION VORTEX""Psychopolitical Escalation Philosophy"WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING? War was better before they tried to turn warfare into calculus At what point does
Read more
REVEALED: Trump’s election campaign wanted to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016.The ‘Deterrence’ project can be revealed after Channel 4 News obtained the database used by Trump's
Read more
Disregarding the rest of the absolute bullshit in this thread and Regarding “busting of nuclear blackmail”:-“there are people in important places in India’s strategic circles who have drawn dangerously wrong
Read more
THIS.Thank you @TheNasherYo for sharing your story of getting caught and charged with Stunt Driving and the effects it had on you. Thank you for being brave and honest in
Read more
So, here's the thing. The "mission" is "prevent the use of nuclear weapons against the United States." The problem is endless scenario planning about warfighting use, which is ludicrous but
Read more
C4 news tonight leading with data leak from Trump's 2016 campaign database: “a major investigation reveals data leak & evidence that 3.5m Black voters were marked as ‘deterrence’ in a
Read more
It is well past time to accept that a reset cannot happen with Putin & his devotees at the helm of Russia. Leaders should limit official engagement... Simultaneously, the U.S.
Read more
This paragraph on the Anglo-German naval arms race, from Andrew Bacevich's recent article in the American Prospect, has been bugging me since I first read it. https://prospect.org/world/china-conundrum-deterrence-as-dominance/ IMO his t
Read more
Some quotes and thoughts on the death penalty that reflect my own personal views. A thread With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I
Read more
1. How much do you love @realDonaldTrump? How much do you love your country? [they] started the silent war; in fact [they] have been bleeding a blind public, stealth, traitors,
Read more
Not mentioning any names here, but one of the dangers of committing crimes to win an election is losing and not having the friends in high places to cover them
Read more
I am one of millions of Pakistanis that observe #YoumETakbeer on May 28. Pakistani nuclear deterrence is existential and thus necessary. But it is also a day to think about
Read more
It bothers me when abolitionists I respect say things like "There's no evidence police make anyone safer."There are decent papers using reasonable causal inference methods that find police deter crimes
Read more
as i reflected on what happened on here regarding SA at USF, i can honestly say I’ve learned how to be better. if i truly believe in restorative justice and
Read more