US Inviting Aggression by Weakening Nuclear, Conventional Deterrence: Bradley Thayer

Two recent U.S. military moves are spurring concerns that the country may be weakening its deterrence. The Air Force is pulling permanent F-15 squadrons from Okinawa and replacing them with rotational fighters, and the Pentagon is retiring the most destructive nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal. NTD spoke to Bradley Thayer, the director of China Policy at the Center for Security Policy and co-author of “America’s Achilles Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack.” Thayer said these moves signal that the U.S. is inviting aggression from hostile foreign nations like China.