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To: DMaA who wrote (761083)4/12/2022 10:55:20 AM
From: Maple MAGA 2 Recommendations

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Mick Mørmøny

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Wargasm

The first coordinated nuclear attack policy in the United States was codified as SIOP-62 at the prompting of the Science Advisor in the Eisenhower Administration, George Kistiakowsky. Prior to SIOP-62, each of the U.S.'s military branches had drawn up their own target lists and action plans, which led to a wide variety of overkill situations and the possibility of blue-on-blue fire. After Kistiakowsky reported on the problems this caused, Eisenhower took nuclear planning away from the individual branches, centralized it, and gave it to RAND for extensive oversight.

However, the plan that developed was still based on the same basic concept of an all-out war, or what Herman Kahn referred to as a "wargasm". SIOP-62 called for a single coordinated attack that used up all of the U.S.'s arsenal on a wide variety of targets in the Soviet Union and China. Concerns about the inflexibility of the plan were expressed early and often; U.S. Marine Commandant David Shoup noted that an attack by the Soviets would result in a retaliation that included China whether or not they were involved, and observed that "any plan that kills millions of Chinese when it isn't even their war is not a good plan. This is not the American way."



To: DMaA who wrote (761083)4/12/2022 11:06:08 AM
From: Sdgla1 Recommendation

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ig

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Who’s running the war in Ukraine? We are Not surprising at all. The US military has most likely been in charge of the Ukrainian General Staff for years & "Ukrainian military intelligence" is a joke, it's just NATO live feeds. The only reason no one admits that Russia and NATO are in an open state of war is fear of nukes



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