Good post. You talk about MAD, but one interesting dynamic is that with conventional warfare, the US and its allies have un-paralleled capabilities but one chec

Good post. You talk about MAD, but one interesting dynamic is that with conventional warfare, the US and its allies have un-paralleled capabilities but one check on that is that if they were to project this power onto a foreign territory like Russia/China there is a disadvantage in that the US would be unlikely to launch nuclear weapons on locale's where troops could be harmed by them thereby creating a dis-incentive to invade.