Peace through nuclear annihilation
Peace through “Demonstration Nuclear Strikes” anyway.
Nuclear annihilation is for amateurs and neophytes.
Much more devastating, and ultimately more effective, is to reduce your opponent’s capabilities through an all-out cyber-attack and disruption of all internal communications, so they cannot muster the capabilities they had once possessed. We stood no chance in North Korea in November 1950, at the Yalu River, because Chinese could pour across, like army ants on the march, faster than we could possibly disrupt them. The fact that it was also the most bitterly cold winter of the northern Korean peninsula that year, also did not work in our favor.
The Chinese came so rapidly, that even with only a minimum of effective weaponry, the UN forces saw their lines of communication shattered. Remember, that was a time when a field radio had only limited range, and there was little or no assist from aerial reconnaissance, because of the weather. The unit on the other side of the hill could be wiped out, and there was no way to get assistance to them, without being wiped out yourself.
For the UN forces, it was a devastating rout. Since then, the military has consistently tried to maintain upgraded communications, and also to improve their intelligence on enemy movements in anticipation.
The point I am making here is that in confrontation, your side’s internal communication is of paramount importance. The US military establishment is far ahead of most of the rest of the world in “hardening” their lines of communication, to resist such things as a cyber attack or an EMP burst, and in that, currently we maintain a superiority that perhaps Iran or any of the other Islamic terrorist nations do not yet have.
“STUXNET” was a master stroke in crippling, for a short while, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear development program. Only, the blabbermouth double agents in the Current Regime made this subtle chess move public knowledge, thus robbing us of a real and effective advantage.
The war goes on, in little snipes and pings delivered at unexpected quarters, and the element of surprise more geared to superior technology, than in massive movements of cannon fodder for both sides.