Biden sabotages America’s deterrence strategy
Trading strength for appeasement
By Jed Babbin - - Saturday, April 9, 2022
OPINION:
Deterrence — America’s principal defense strategy — is intended to discourage an attack on us or our allies by threatening unbearable consequences for the attacker. Our deterrence has lost much of its credibility over the past 14 months because President Biden has weakened our military, diplomacy and economy. Its credibility must be restored.
George Washington admonished us that one of the best ways to ensure peace is to prepare for war. Mr. Washington’s counsel was ignored, and America usually took years to build its forces and convert its economy to wartime. The advent of the first Cold War with Russia required us, in “peacetime,” to provide the protection of our “nuclear umbrella” to our NATO allies.
Twenty-first-century deterrence needs to be effective against nuclear and major conventional conflicts. That requires constantly-evolving military strength, tough-minded America-centric diplomacy and American prosperity. Without prosperity, we cannot support either the military we need or the credible diplomacy upon which it must be based. (Some adversaries, such as Iran and Islamist terror networks, are not susceptible to deterrence. A separate strategy is needed to deal with them.)
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