Philip Sheers
@philsheers
D.C. New Yorker | @KenyonCollege and @Georgetown SSP | Nuclear deterrence, great power competition, and DIB issues @CNASdc | Go Yankees | My own views
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09-08-2024 17:13:15
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NEW from Andrew Metrick, Philip Sheers, and Stacie Pettyjohn, Over the Brink: Escalation Management in a Protracted War 🧵⬇️
In this Breaking Defense piece, Andrew Metrick & Phil Sheers unpack the implications of China's nuclear build up...BLUF it isn't good & the DoD needs to think a lot more about the intersection between conventional warfighting & nuclear deterrence breakingdefense.com/2024/08/into-t…
Andrew Metrick, Philip Sheers & Stacie Pettyjohn new report, "Over the Brink: Escalation Management in a Protracted War" posits a conventional-nuclear crossfade: in a protracted Sino-American conflict, an inversion of conventional & nuclear escalation risks may render limited nuclear
Thanks to Shashank Joshi for writing this great piece in The Economist on Andrew Metrick, Philip Sheers, and my recent CNAS report on some wargames that we ran exploring nuclear dynamics in a potential US-China war over Taiwan. economist.com/asia/2024/08/2…