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200924-F-YH293-1001 by 307th Bomb Wing Public Affairs Via Flickr: A B-1B Lancer’s afterburners glow after taking off from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Sept. 24, 2020. The bomber, assigned to the 345th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, was on its way to Norway to practice interoperability training with Nordic allies in support of a Bomber Task Force mission. It crossed the Arctic Circle, a region of strategic significance, to help aircrews gain familiarity with the area and ensure it remains a stable and open international environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Ted Daigle)

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Useless Resident Evil Headcanon #500

The Kennedy Report is often mistaken for a document by new recruits, but in actuality is a training simulation in the form of the game Resident Evil 4. It’s a very effective method for teaching that even under the worst circumstances you can get through any mission with enough tenacity and skill, but that any slip up can result in death or worse. It’s usually a 50/50 split on whether recruits think the events actually happened as their shown in the “game”, though any and all doubts are erased if one even catches a glimpse of Leon S. Kennedy in action.

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North Pole mission by 307th Bomb Wing Public Affairs Via Flickr: A B-1B Lancer assigned to the 345th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron flies over the Arctice Circle, Sept. 25, 2020. Two bombers assigned to the unit completed flights that passed directly over the North Pole enroute to perform interoperability training with the Norwegian air force. (U.S. Air Force aircrew photo)

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200924-F-YH293-1001 by 307th Bomb Wing Public Affairs Via Flickr: A B-1B Lancer departs Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska on the it way to the Arctic Circle, Sept. 24, 2020. The sortie, part of a Bomber Task Force mission supporting U.S. European Command initiatives, was designed to give aircrews familiarity with operating in the Arctic. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Ted Daigle)

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How to Start a Nuclear War

Generally unrecorded by the outside world, there has been a “streamlining” of the system of command and control, as Blair put it in a somewhat opaque article in Arms Control Today. Though the shift, which dates to the George W. Bush era and was additionally confirmed to me by a former senior Pentagon official, may appear to outsiders as a merely bureaucratic rearrangement, it has deadly serious implications. Formerly, attack warnings were received and processed by ­­NORAD, in its lair deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, and passed via the National Military Command Center to the White House. But intelligence of a possible attack now goes almost directly to the head of Strategic Command. From his headquarters, far from Washington at Offutt Air Force Base, this powerful officer, currently an Air Force general named John Hyten, reigns supreme over the entire US strategic nuclear arsenal. He now dominates the whole nuclear countdown process: alerting the president, briefing him on the threat, and guiding him through the various options for a retaliatory or, as is likely given the jamming, preemptive strike.

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Hyten did not mention that in both actual alerts and exercises, according to Blair, it has sometimes proved impossible to locate and patch in officials such as the defense secretary, despite the fact that the system calls for them to be connected automatically. Thus, in a real or apparent crisis, the crucial and necessarily fraught conversation may be between two men: General Hyten and Donald Trump.

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“I’m going to say, Mr. President, it’s illegal,” continued Hyten, expressing confidence that the president, rather than brushing his objection aside and brusquely transmitting the order to launch, would obligingly respond, “‘What would be legal?’ And we’ll come up with options of a mix of capabilities to respond to whatever the situation is.”Neither of the generals provided any example of what might actually constitute an illegal order (Kehler offered only some vague references to “military necessity” and “proportion”), still less any precedent for American military commanders defying civilian authority when ordered to launch an attack. In any event, though their comments may have served their purpose in calming public fears, they were entirely irrelevant. Unless the principal command center has been knocked out, once the president gives his order the ­STRATCOM commander has no role in actually executing the nuclear strike. He sees a presidential launch order at the same time as the other command centers that execute it.

In the event that a commander did choose to defy the president, the former senior Pentagon official suggested, it could even lead to a situation where officers in the launch centers would be receiving contrary orders through different channels, leading to what he called “the biggest shitstorm in the world.”