11:16AM
Time's Battleland: "Coming to a missile silo near you: the end of the strategic triad"
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 11:16AM 
As the Pentagon's "efficiencies review" unfolds, one Cold War mainstay of the US military posture is inevitably going to be retired - namely, the land-based portion of the strategic missile triad. The Pentagon is tasked with coming up with $400 billion in savings over the next decade, and so this long-discussed option (and old Mark Thompson favorite from his Swampland days) is finally going to come to pass - according to my sources in the Building.
Read the entire post at Time's Battleland.
Reader Comments (1)
Good news for the submariners. They have been looking for work since the wall came down. Can't justify the cost of running a nuclear sub fleet for drug interdiction. Launching cruise missiles gives them new missions short of nuclear war.
Seems like I have been living with the silos all my life. I remember the Nike sites in Chicago when I was a kid. Once on the Lake Front, I saw a soldier jump the concertina wire to seize a camera from a woman who was taking pictures of the missiles. I had a buddy who as a 19 year old Airman, shot an intruder on a SAC base. Those were the days.