"What Ukraine’s campaign has exposed about Russia is really a deeper vulnerability: an energy superpower whose strength lies in infrastructure built decades ago, maintained through improvisation, and preserved by command rather than innovation." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...

'Harrison notes that treatment times for gonorrhea dropped from 25 days to just 24 hours, and for syphilis from 40–50 days to 4–5 days. The British Medical Journal colorfully described gonorrhea discharge as being “turned off like a tap.”' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I think the really odd thing is believing that you need hyper-expensive and comprehensive missile defenses to guarantee a second strike capability. Are you telling me he believes that in their absence, the US does *not* have such a capability? Hard to believe they really think this.

Long: "the logical conclusion of Charlie's argument is we should get out of the extended deterrence business. then we really don't need to do most of this [damage limitation for credibility of use]. But that's a grand strategy decision." strategicsimplicity.substack.com/p/debating-d...

Glaser: "I'm most puzzled by all the concern about missile defense, frankly, in the sense that it's relatively easy to defeat and the Chinese know it, yet they focus on it a lot. So either they don't know it or it's more of a talking point." strategicsimplicity.substack.com/p/debating-d...

Long on nuc deterrence as game of chicken & why damage limitation helps. "the United States is driving a large truck, and the adversary is driving some kind of small Fiat...that gives you more...willingness to hold the steering wheel"

Austin Long, defending damage limitation, points out USSR thought it'd need "low hundreds" of warheads to get through. "And they were concerned about their ability to inflict that ... [with] 7,000 strategic warheads because of US capabilities [incl] targeting [C2]...the forces themselves, etc"

Glaser's criticism of damage limitation: "United States is pretty concentrated..You just need to destroy the key centers of population, industry, and politics... it's a fairly easy mission. We're talking about, I would say, a few tens of of warheads" strategicsimplicity.substack.com/p/debating-d...

Charles Glaser: "most of the Cold War debate after...the early 70s actually did not engage damage limitation. Most of that discussion assumed we couldn't limit damage. It was a bit off topic. You weren't really allowed to talk about damage limitation" strategicsimplicity.substack.com/p/debating-d...