Time's Battleland: "Coming to a missile silo near you: the end of the strategic triad"
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 11:16AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Time's Battleland, US Military

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.

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