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In reality there's also a lot of politics (both congressional districts/states, and inter-service rivalry) to the Triad. Especially for the Army's piece (tacti
by rdl 13y ago
In reality there's also a lot of politics (both congressional districts/states, and inter-service rivalry) to the Triad. Especially for the Army's piece (tactical weapons), which I think we've mostly phased out, and IMO manned bombers for the most part.
- hga 13y agoWhile by definition you're partly correct, the triad itself, which never had an Army competent, is carefully designed to make sure of significant serious retaliatory return. Bombers are critically important because you can launch them in all sorts of circumstances including ones short of war without their necessarily even being able to have their warheads go boom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link). They're also obviously not vulnerable to ABM systems except the dual use ones. Or various gambits that make the space though which ballistic missiles have to travel hostile, e.g. zero intelligence "gravel". When the stakes are survival, redundancy is your friend.