He wants to play a nuclear game of chicken. 
I can tell ya this much. Iād have all of them ready to retaliate in the event of a strike, given Putinās rhetoric.
Not saying Putin will follow throw by any means (MAD tends to prevent that), but you always need to have a contingency plan.
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Do any of you think we are not ready top retaliate?
At least I am assuming that we are ready.
Anybody, anybody against SDI is playing in the hands of despots, dictators and this current situation. More possible conflicts? = more arms deals profiting arms dealers.
So Iām not anti-counter moves/escalations by any stretch I just believe that there has to be a clear objective. And this doesnāt have that to me. If this was done the weeks ago, maybe, but now a big public deployment makes no sense. You want to tell the boomers to steam towards their designated strike locations itās reasonable. But I donāt think itās some magic intimidation move line Kellogg implies.
A more fun move would be to start dropping off crates of weapons and ammo close to coastal population centers in Russia for āthe resistanceā If it actually gets to resistance factionsā¦ Great. But the main goal there would be to get Moscow to get more jumpy about internal problems and maybe take their eye off the ball.
Donāt know whether we are or are not ready to retaliate against any nuclear strike, but as I said, we need to be ready, so I canāt say that this guyās suggestion is a bad idea in that regard.
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Iām glad heās not part of our national security team. Maybe others like him in the chain just canāt speak up like him because their part of the admin. I donāt think we need to ratchet up the heat. Itās dangerous. I get his thinking otherwords Mr Putin your are not the only one who has a big stick. That is nuclear gamemanship with the fate of the world. People need to understand you pull the trigger thereās no going back humpty dumpty is broken for a long long time. I donāt like it.
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Iām kinda shocked to hear we only have 5 or 6 deployed at anyone time. From what I read we have a fleet of 14 Ohio class submarines. He is saying we have less than half deployed at anytime ! His title as
general , does that imply he is an army guy and not a Navy man. But it seems like bad idea to ratchet up
the ultimate conflict.
When your only tool is a hammer
1 on station - 1 going - 1 coming - 1 in maint cycle - 1 in refit/yard
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Ahhh, that makes sense now with your explanation !
So that gets to 6 deployed in mission and 5 or so more in different stages of transitioning.
same reason we have 12 carriers & LHA/Dās thatās bare minimum to maintain on on station in the Pac/Atl