Good evening my dearest of oomfs. It's reading time tonight, and I have just the book. This book was written just as the Soviet Union was collapsing, and people fear limited nuclear war and out of control nuclear proliferation. It is assumed that didn't happen... or did it? /🧵

I'm going to skip straight to chapter 3: The Nuclear Guerilla. In here we are going to read about the opinion of Chinese generals and planners, as well as their American counterparts.

You may not realise this but America built much of its nuclear strategy on this kind of work: It assumed the future will be fought by Nuclear Guerrillas, fake non-state actors wielding nuclear weapons, terrorising nations around the world with them,alongside plausible deniability

The idea is, why have missiles, and all these thresholds which freeze a nation down a path of defeat (see the Soviet Union) when you can spread the threat into something that you can never quench: nuclear saboteur that can take out key points in your enemy's chain at any time!

The Chinese strategy is genius because it doesn't treat nuclear weapons as a separate force but a MAIN force of resistance against an enemy. The nuclear bombs can be transported to the "rear" (as in,inside other nations) and detonated by guerrillas even after the mainland is gone

The Chinese defined a "nuclear people's war", where the aim is to destroy the peace in the enemy's heart land, to deny them a victory. It's all about constantly nuking your enemy's homeland until they're so destroyed that they cannot declare victory ever again.

This STILL forms a deterrence, in fact a more advanced one, one that not even any kind of defence can ever stop. It has now been 79 years since the detonation of the first nuclear bomb in modern times. How far do you think these weapons have been transported and where are they?

People still think in terms of: MAD NFU (No first use). But what happens when a deterrent fails? Then clearly, the deterrent MUST BE USED as a conventional attack weapon since a death spiral may be formed where it cannot be used anymore! This is something missed by most analysts

The wisdom at the time was that the lower the yield the lower the threshold of use, the lower the threshold of RESTRAINT. Killing a diplomat inside a third nation, especially one that has nuclear weapons, will surely exceed that already low restraint!

I'm sure those who read me and @drbairdonline already know that the nuclear genie is out of the bottle. But we are not yet at the phase of unlimited nuclear war. I believe we are almost there though. There is no nuclear taboo to be spoken of anymore.

@drbairdonline Israel carried out a nuclear sabotage of the port of Beirut and tried to blame Hezbollah and failed to, as Hezbollah said "We don't have nuclear weapons". Well, I assure you, Hezbollah wasn't telling the full truth. :)

@drbairdonline Please read the highlighted texts, so that I don't have to spell it out. Say goodbye to the port of Haifa.

@drbairdonline No matter what the demons do to Lebanon, there will be guerillas all over the satanic plague nation, carrying nuclear bombs, ready to detonate them at ANY TIME and place. This is why the Israelis feared the Iranian nuclear program, because there is NO ANSWER to this warfare.

@drbairdonline In this case, these "backpack nukes" act like daggers, in front of what would be a sword: A nuclear missile with a large payload. But daggers can kill you far more efficiently than a sword, when placed in the right side of the body at the right time. :)

And this is how you develop a second tier, resistance force with teeth -- ensure the enemy understands that no evil countervalue act will be left unanswered, even if it takes time. Just look at Gaza and what the tunnels did there. What is waiting underneath Tel Aviv? /End

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