W Bush had many failures as a president, but in 2007, most analyses claimed the US had the capability to destroy Russia and China, with limited damage to us, if one of them struck first.
Is that advantage now lost, 10 years later?
The Obama years were devastating to our military in general and to our nuclear forces and missile defense programs in particular
After Iraq, it became clear to Russia they could not compete with conventional forces so the focused on upgrades to their tactical and strategic nuclear forces which is ominous.
They are structuring their military to go nuclear early with small micro tactical nuclear weapons in any future conflict since they cannot afford the across the board to upgrade for next generation warfare
The Chinese have made quantum leaps in advanced military capability over the last 10 years
“” “” W Bush had many failures as a president, but in 2007, most analyses claimed the US had the capability to destroy Russia and China, with limited damage to us, if one of them struck first.”” “”
Well, if ‘limited damage’ is the destruction of every major population center and every significant military installation combined with inceneration of 160 000 000 million Americans.... Yes.