Mark Davis is a conservative radio talk show host and columnist based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2011 and 2012, writing on topics including presidential politics and nuclear disarmament policy.
The Obama administration states in its just released defense guidance paper that perhaps America’s nuclear “deterrence goals can be achieved with a smaller nuclear force.”
The Obama administration is using an internal budgetary review of the Department of Defense as cover to undertake what amounts to an off-schedule Nuclear Posture Review—one that ices out Defense and State Department experts usually consulted on nuclear issues. It is also beginning a new round of…