Darren Farber
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 May
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And so that should really work as the maximal deterrent for any of these things breaking out.
And so why spend all the calories on building?
all of these proportional capabilities when through a chain of escalation, it's just ultimately going to lead to the big red button.
Those are kind of the competing theories.
Eisenhower's theory was maximal deterrence.
If you do anything, we're going to use the really special stuff.
Taylor's was we're going to use proportional force.
And he had viewed it as a deterrence gap.
Because are we really going to go nuclear for small incursions, small footfaults?
I think to an extent that was right, but all of it leads towards escalation.
If you don't embark with this very clear directive internally of what you want to accomplish from a political standpoint, and you're not crisp about it,
it, then you lose political will and then you lose the ability to do it.
You lose Congress, you lose the budget, you ultimately lose the executive.
So that becomes more and more important.
But you have to paint the target of what you want to accomplish.
And so all these things are political.
So
I think it's fair to say you need both.
If you took an exclusive maximalist view of Eisenhower of having this nuclear deterrent, your only response is nuclear deterrents.
Can you imagine the world that we'd be living in?
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