In this section, we talk about the integrated deterrence plan developed by the US National Security Strategy presented by the administration of President Joe Biden, which includes safe and effective nuclear deterrence, to confront the threats posed by China, Russia and their allies, including the modernization of the "Nuclear Third".

The integrated deterrence plan was based on the Ministry of Defense’s plan, which in its report for the fiscal year 2023 allocated $276 billion, equivalent to about a third of the budget of $813.3 billion.

This budget for complete deterrence is the largest ever, according to the Ministry of Defense, including $34.3 billion for the modernization of nuclear capabilities, considering nuclear deterrence as one of the ministry's most important priorities.

Of course, this would trigger the nuclear race again in a terrifying way between the countries that produce nuclear weapons, to develop their technological capabilities, increase their capabilities to attack and deter and achieve victory.

Biden's strategy announced that to ensure the continued nuclear deterrence capability of the threats faced by the United States and its allies, it would modernize the nuclear triad, command and control, nuclear communications, and nuclear weapons infrastructure, as well as strengthen the allies' expanded deterrence commitments.

The nuclear race intensifies

Biden's strategy stressed that the US military is the most powerful fighting force the world has ever known, and that the United States will not hesitate to use force when necessary to defend its national interests, but as a last resort and only when the goals and message are clear and achievable, stressing that nuclear deterrence will remain a priority. paramount to the nation and the basis for integrated deterrence.

A safe and effective nuclear force supports defensive priorities by deterring strategic attacks, reassuring allies and partners, and allowing objectives to be achieved if conventional deterrence fails.

In justifying this competition, the strategy notes that competitors and potential adversaries are investing heavily in developing new nuclear weapons, and that by the 2030s the United States will need for the first time to deter two major nuclear powers, each of which will deploy modern and diverse global and regional nuclear powers.

Here, the strategy declares that to ensure continued nuclear deterrence capability to the threats faced by the United States and its allies, it will modernize the nuclear triad, command and control, and nuclear weapons infrastructure, as well as strengthen the allies' expanded deterrence commitments.

The nuclear triad refers to the United States' ability to nuclear deterrence and attack by land, sea, and air, using guided bombs or ballistic missiles, launched from missile launchers, military aircraft, ships and submarines.

This qualitative modernization by the United States to develop its nuclear deterrence capabilities comes in the face of the development achieved by China and Russia in enhancing the capabilities of the nuclear triad of each.

According to the US Department of Defense in its plan for 2021, China is targeting the main US military advantages, through new capabilities in space, electronic warfare, undersea warfare, combat aircraft, and bombers equipped with long-range cruise missiles and others, and Russia is working to improve its strategic nuclear weapons. And its delivery systems comprehensively with an investment of $28 billion in 2020, allowing it to modernize its capabilities in the field of intercontinental ballistic missiles, ballistic missile submarines, and strategic bombers.

The Ministry of Defense plan for 2021 has made it clear that since 2016 it has made great progress on all fronts of competition with China and Russia, by giving priority to modernization, innovation and advanced readiness, stressing at the same time that competitive defense investments alone will not deter China and Russia, and that great power competition means That the Department of Defense must develop new organizational concepts and methods for employing force, determination, posture, and combat, and build more flexibility and responsiveness in the deployment of its power globally, allowing it to reach its capabilities to global hotspots on short notice.

The US Department of Defense also stated in its plan for 2022, that the ministry has received strong and confirmed bipartisan support in Congress to modernize nuclear deterrence, as the current nuclear deterrence systems were built in the eighties and before, and their service life ends in the period from 2025 to 2035, with all existing systems extended beyond their original service life.

The strategy affirms that the United States has a vital interest in deterring the aggression of China, Russia and other countries, and that it must maintain increasing its deterrence capabilities, while emphasizing that China is the greatest challenge facing America today.

Integrated Deterrence Plan

Biden's strategy laid out a plan for the "integrated deterrence" of China and Russia, noting that the United States has a vital interest in deterring the aggression of China, Russia and other countries, and that it must maintain the strategy of increasing its defensive capabilities to deter, while emphasizing that China is the greatest challenge facing the United States. Currently United.

An integrated deterrence plan relies on a seamless blend of capabilities to convince potential adversaries that the costs of their hostile activities outweigh the benefits.

The integration covers the following areas:

Integration across domains:

Competing strategies operate in the military (land, air, sea, cyber, and space) and non-military (economic, technological, and informational) domains, and the United States and its allies should do so as well.

Integration across regions:

US competitors combine expansionist ambitions with the growing capabilities to threaten US interests in key regions of the world, as well as in the United States.

Integration in the overall scope of conflict:

To prevent US competitors from altering the international status quo in ways that are detrimental to its vital interests, at a time when it is moving around the bottom line of armed conflict.

Integration through the US government:

To take advantage of the combination of American advantages, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, security, and decision-making power.

Integration with allies and partners:

By investing in interoperability, joint capacity development, cooperation in position planning, and diplomatic and economic coordination.

The strategy stresses that integrated deterrence requires coordination, communication and innovation more effectively, so that any competitor who thinks of pressure to achieve superiority in one area understands that he will face the superiority of the United States and its allies in many areas, and this increases support for conventional and strategic combat capabilities. credibility, allowing the United States and its partners to form better perceptions of the adversary, and the risks and costs of moving against core U.S. interests, at any time and across any domain.

The strange thing is that the strategy confirms that it does not seek conflict or a new cold war, and that it works according to a positive program to promote peace, security, prosperity, democracy and human rights in the world, and that it works in order to defend a free, open, prosperous and secure world, and that the United States will cooperate with any country that supports The "rules-based world order" is the basis for peace and prosperity in the world, according to the strategy.

Is it the re-launch of the nuclear race that will achieve this?

Is this horrific escalation in nuclear deterrence systems, equipment, missiles and missiles that will achieve the United States' superiority in competition with China, and enable it to overcome the acute threat posed by Russia to the United States, according to the strategy?

Or is it the uniqueness of leadership, selfishness and arrogance, which makes the United States not see what it sees?

Is that really all that Washington and its partners need to win the competition in the twenty-first century, as per strategy?

Are there not other ways, methods and mechanisms to address the intensity of competition and contain the threats posed by the rising powers?

Why does the United States not respond to the observations, criticisms and demands of these forces, and rebuild the international system with a participatory vision that achieves the interests of all parties, saves humanity from annihilation, and establishes a more just and integrated stage, with less tension and conflict?

Does she do?

Unfortunately, it appears that it will not.

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