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Elizabeth N. Saunders🧵Can't get numb to this: in the Iran War, we have a total vacuum of leadership in the Pentagon and State Dept amid a strategic disaster of America's own making. Two pieces show how: first, Hegseth blaming Trump's bad info on near-empty missile stockpiles on a deputy. wapo.st/4hQVTF0 1/
USDP speech on this in Omaha today at noon, FYI; BLUF seems to be *not* sizing up strategic forces for 2-front damage limitation ~2035 against Russia + China, but maintaining NST-ish strat forces while adding a whole bunch of theater stuff www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Pentagon drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy in case of regional war with China or Russia, sources sayThe classified strategy informs nuclear options for the commander in chief during crises.www.nbcnews.com