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I mog him hardGoot and Brapsil: the soysphere's most elite military pundits.
I mog him hardGoot and Brapsil: the soysphere's most elite military pundits.
Yeah deterrence by assuring mutual destruction. How do you do that without at least second strike capability? Also how do you assure that enough conventional weapons survive that you can destroy a country with them after getting nuked? In practice MAD means nukes.MAD doesn't mean you nuke everybody
It's a strategy of deterrance
There's a reason they're building missile complexes in the mountains like crazyYeah deterrence by assuring mutual destruction. How do you do that without at least second strike capability? Also how do you assure that enough conventional weapons survive that you can destroy a country with them after getting nuked? In practice MAD means nukes.
Yeah, but that's not really second strike capability. They could almost certainly be destroyed in the event of an all out nuclear attack. You pretty much need nuclear submarines for true MAD.There's a reason they're building missile complexes in the mountains like crazy
Iran is broke, they're choosing aysymettrical methodsYeah, but that's not really second strike capability. They could almost certainly be destroyed in the event of an all out nuclear attack. You pretty much need nuclear submarines for true MAD.
Can you elaborate on what you mean there? What's asymmetrical MAD?Iran is broke, they're choosing aysymettrical methods
IsrealCan you elaborate on what you mean there? What's asymmetrical MAD?
Marge? Can you explain how they could asymmetrically assure mutual destruction?Isreal
@Keyed zaryanThe USA is politically structured that the total flattening of Isreal is a strictly forbidden outcome
Yes but you haven't explained how they're going to do it. Let's say that america and israel launch 1000 nukes on iran tomorrow. What do they do in this situation to ensure destruction of israel and america? America and russia (the only nations on earth that have achieved true MAD) both have a plan for a scenario like this, so it's a valid question.
Throwing poop at the oppsWhat's asymmetrical MAD?
USA is adverse because doing something like that would put all other nuclear powers on edge and give them the "excuse" to emulate their nuclear attacks on their own targetsYes but you haven't explained how they're going to do it. Let's say that america and israel launch 1000 nukes on iran tomorrow. What do they do in this situation to ensure destruction of israel and america? America and russia (the only nations on earth that have achieved true MAD) both have a plan for a scenario like this, so it's a valid question.
Stop talking around the question. You said iran had proven MAD, now I'm asking you how they would in practice assure mutual destruction. With this logic everyone on earth has mad because actually nuking anyone would be a terrible idea and no one will do it.USA is adverse because doing something like that would put all other nuclear powers on edge and give them the "excuse" to emulate their nuclear attacks on their own targets
That's becauae we differ in definition and continue to disagree about how the definition may be appliedStop talking around the question. You said iran had proven MAD, now I'm asking you how they would in practice assure mutual destruction. With this logic everyone on earth has mad because actually nuking anyone would be a terrible idea and no one will do it.
There is only one definition. MAD is a real defined concept in military theory.That's becauae we differ in definition and continue to disagree about how the definition may be applied
Genuinely thisWith this logic everyone on earth has mad because actually nuking anyone would be a terrible idea and no one will do it.
military theory.
noob "nukes don't exist" isn't a leading theory. We know they exist. The other one is the truth.Genuinely this
This is one of the two leading theories as to why nobody ever uses nukes (the being that nukes don't exist)
You can nuke your non-nuclear enemy to dust and you can gain a lot from doing so, but now your nuclear adversary is nuking all their non-nuclear enemies to dust which will probably f&!#k you up massively by proxy