The Military Doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
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If you like this piece and all of my past writings, please subscribe below or become a patron at patreon.com/ForwardBlog What is MAD? Mutually assured destruction or as it’s known by its acronym, MAD, is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale usage of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides, would completely annihilate both the attacker and the defender. This would thus initiate a chain reaction in which other countries, both allies and enemies of the initial two, would engage with their nuclear weapons. This engagement would quite obviously destroy the world as we know it by making the earth almost completely uninhabitable. The term was first coined in 1962 by Donald Brennan, a strategist at the Hudson Institute. It’s part of the “Nash equilibrium” game theory in which once armed, neither side has the incentive to initiate a conflict or disarm. This
The Military Doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
The Military Doctrine of Mutually Assured…
The Military Doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
If you like this piece and all of my past writings, please subscribe below or become a patron at patreon.com/ForwardBlog What is MAD? Mutually assured destruction or as it’s known by its acronym, MAD, is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale usage of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides, would completely annihilate both the attacker and the defender. This would thus initiate a chain reaction in which other countries, both allies and enemies of the initial two, would engage with their nuclear weapons. This engagement would quite obviously destroy the world as we know it by making the earth almost completely uninhabitable. The term was first coined in 1962 by Donald Brennan, a strategist at the Hudson Institute. It’s part of the “Nash equilibrium” game theory in which once armed, neither side has the incentive to initiate a conflict or disarm. This