Veteran national security reporter Bill Gertz at the Washington Times offers a piece on a U.S. Navy admiral noting the possibility of nuclear war with China and Russia.
The United
States must be ready for a nuclear war with China or Russia and seek new ways
to deter both countries’ use of newly acquired advanced strategic weapons, the
commander of the U.S. Strategic Command is warning in a major new review of the
global balance of nuclear forces.
Adm. Charles Richard (seen in the
below photo), writing in the current issue of the U.S. Naval Institute journal
Proceedings, offered a blunt and detailed assessment that the luxury of living
in a post-Cold War era when direct armed conflict with a rival nuclear power
was not possible is over.
“There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons, if they perceived a conventional loss would threaten the regime or state,” the four-star admiral wrote.
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