(Air Force Times) Backtalk: Changes to nuclear program lack substance

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Changes to nuclear program lack substance
By Robert F. Dorr

Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz came into office with a powerful mandate to change the way the Air Force handles nuclear weapons.

They could have sought to de-alert our missile force and reduce our bloated nuclear arsenal.

Instead, their plan for a new Global Strike Command, to handle what they call “the nuclear enterprise,” is a change with little substance or imagination.

The level of leadership chosen for the all-nuclear command, and even its name, are lackluster decisions at best. At worst, they suggest an absence of vision and direction.

A Pentagon advisory group issued 34 recommendations Sept. 12, including one to consolidate nuclear responsibilities under the existing Air Force Space Command, which then would be renamed Air Force Strategic Command.


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