Turkey’s Nuclear Turbines
by September 16, 2024 | No Comments
|Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 we’ve heard a lot of chatter about US and European resolve to sanction or otherwise deter cooperation between the West and Russia’s nuclear industry. A small number of vendors in Europe and the US have acknowledged since the invasion that they aim to capture market share for nuclear …
TYPHON, FATHER OF MONSTERS
by June 27, 2024 | No Comments
|Jeffrey and his team have been OSINT’ing the heck out of the deployment of the Typhon Strategic Mid-Range Fires (SMRF) ((Typhon Smurf?)) to the Philippines, and tracked down the airport and deployment zone. Recently the U.S. Army deployed the new Typhon SMRF system to the Philippines as part of an exercise, raising the ire of …
Russian Entanglement
by June 27, 2024 | No Comments
|Tom Schelling described escalation as a “curved slope” where you won’t be able to predict when the final drop occurs, and Ukraine targeting an early warning radar in Russia certainly is at least a few steps down that slop. Jeffrey and Aaron sit down at the intersection of “legitimate conventional military target” and “direct cause …
Iran and Israel’s Missile War
by May 18, 2024 | No Comments
|We have data! Jeffrey and Aaron walk through the new primary source data to figure out if either Iran’s missile raid or Israeli’s missile defense efforts were effective. This appears to be the first time that successful wartime ballistic missile defense intercepts can be validated via open source means, which is a major step forward …
Chabahar Shuffle
by Dave Schmerler | May 13, 2024
Iran's Once in a Lifetime Moment
by ACW Podcast | April 17, 2024
Russian Nuclear Doctrine in the Financial Times 2: A Conversation with William Alberque
by ACW Podcast | April 10, 2024
Russian Nuclear Doctrine in the Financial Times
by ACW Podcast | March 10, 2024
Jeffrey Visits the Test Site
by ACW Podcast | February 19, 2024
Russia Buys North Korean Missiles
by ACW Podcast | January 16, 2024
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Tom Schelling described escalation as a “curved slope” where you won’t be able to predict when the final drop occurs, and Ukraine targeting an early warning radar in Russia certainly is at least a few steps down that slop.
Jeffrey and Aaron sit down at the intersection of “legitimate conventional military target” and “direct cause of nuclear escalation” to talk about the risks and justifications for bringing EW systems into a conflict, and discuss James Acton’s idea of modern entanglement, and the connection between modern conventional and nuclear operations.
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