| ID | 077798 |
| Title Proper | U S strategic war planning after 9/11 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kristensen, Hans M |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The U.S. Department of Defense is implementing the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review's requirement to create a "New Triad" of offensive and defensive capabilities. Advocates assert the new posture is necessary to change U.S. deterrence posture from a "one-size-fits-all" plan focused on the Soviet Union to a global posture designed to better deter or defeat all sizes and types of adversaries. This article describes how new policy guidance is reshaping U.S. strategic planning, converting the top-heavy Cold War Single Integrated Operational Plan into a "family" of smaller, flexible plans designed to threaten potential adversaries anywhere on earth and explores how the responses of these adversaries may help to undermine the nonproliferation regime. |
| `In' analytical Note | Nonproliferation Review Vol. 14, No.2; Jul 2007: p373-390 |
| Journal Source | Nonproliferation Review Vol. 14, No.2; Jul 2007: p373-390 |
| Key Words | United States ; Strategic War Planning ; Global Strike ; Nuclear Policy ; Tailored Deterrence |