#OnThisDay in 1925 the Geneva Protocol was signed, banning the use of chemical and biological weapons in war. This historic agreement paved the way for the world's most successful disarmament treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention. ➡️ Learn more about the history of the CWC: opcw.org/about-us/history
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Great framework to consider integrated deterrence and strategic competition:
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Retired CEO, Chairman Nucor Corporation January 2014, Chairman Emeritus Jan.2014 November 1982–January 2014 Nucor Corporation
WASHINGTON, DC—Finally, someone in official Washington has decided to tell the truth about the Chinese Communist Party’s genocidal chemical warfare against America. The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party issued the results of an investigation establishing that the blame for devastating carnage being wrought here via the deliberate weaponization of fentanyl lies squarely with our mortal enemy: the CCP. By some estimates, over 100,000 Americans will lose their lives this year alone to what the panel calls the Xi regime’s “drug warfare.” Many times that number of us have perished since the CCP initiated in 2018 what Committee on the Present Danger: China member and author of The Devil and Communist China Steven Mosher calls the “Third Opium War.” The Select Committee described the ongoing devastation as equivalent to having a jetliner with 200 people aboard crash here every single day. This is all the more unspeakably outrageous since our government knows that, in the words of the House panel: “The Chinese Communist Party promotes the fentanyl crisis through government programs, protects fentanyl traffickers operating within its borders, and directly benefits from the #fentanyl crisis .” Insult is added to the immense injury inflicted by this form of Beijing’s comprehensive “unrestricted warfare” by the fact that the CCP has, so far, gotten away with it completely. This week’s Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) webinar, “Fentanyl: The CCP’s Chemical Warfare Against America,” from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. ET today will address the damage being done to our people, society and country by the CCP’s ongoing, relentless and lethal chemical attacks and the sorts of costs that must be extracted from their perpetrators, starting now. #Fentanyl #CCPChina #Murder #genocide
Fentanyl: The CCP’s Chemical Warfare Against America
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Today marks more than 100 years that have passed since the Battle of Ypres and the first use of chemical warfare. It also marks the first day of the 25th Meeting of the CBRNE Sensing Conference at SPIE Defense and Security Symposium. Come hear how US, allies, and NATO partners continue to make developments towards next generation sensing that supports early warning, contamination avoidance, decontamination, medical surveillance and battlefield forensics of CBRNE threats. #SPIE, #DCS, #CBRNE
#OnThisDay in 1915 was the first large-scale use of chemical weapons in Ieper, Belgium. Today, with peace as our guiding light, the OPCW is committed to ensuring that past horrors of chemical weapons remain only as history 🕊️
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The first large-scale use of chemical weapons in Ieper, Belgium.
#OnThisDay in 1915 was the first large-scale use of chemical weapons in Ieper, Belgium. Today, with peace as our guiding light, the OPCW is committed to ensuring that past horrors of chemical weapons remain only as history 🕊️
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Insightful commentary on deterrence and what the US must do to revitalise and deliver the necessary capability investment to maintain competitive advantage, but I would add: changing the policy and procurement restrictions to enable true partnerships with the critical non-traditional primes and smaller innovative companies (as well, not instead of, the traditional primes). Without which procurement will be slower, more expensive and less effective; and missing opportunities to deliver the game changing capabilities needed to keep pace - let alone deter - our adversaries!
"Paul Nitze, the Pentagon official whose strategic wisdom helped us win the Cold War, once said, 'Our fundamental purpose is more likely to be defeated from lack of the will to maintain it, than from any mistakes we may make.' In other words, the future is ours to lose. But the future is still ours. [The Strategic Posture Commission] report recommends several policies that can help us end the damaging defense cuts of the past three decades and begin making investments we need. The Commission’s first is that we rebuild and expand the defense industrial base, including the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear weapons production infrastructure. In particular, Congress should partner with the administration and the Navy to establish a third public shipyard to conduct submarine maintenance. Again, this is the recommendation of a completely bipartisan commission of experts. The second proposal builds on the first. We need educational institutions and a talent pipeline to bring skilled tradesmen to this industrial base. These high-paying, stable, and long-term jobs do not require master’s or bachelor’s degrees. They can advance both national security and expand economic opportunity. Finally, the report recommends a series of products we should prioritize. We need more conventional forces, and we should increase procurement of strategic nuclear capabilities like the B-21 and Columbia-class submarine. We need improved missile defenses and rapidly-deployable theater nuclear forces like the sea-launched cruise missile. Delivering these products would put our adversaries on notice and reassure our allies at the same time."
Wicker Delivers Floor Speech on Slipping American Deterrence Efforts
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This is just another great essay from one of our nation's true experts on all things related public diplomacy, information and influence, psychological operations ,and political warfare, Matt Armstrong. Hopefully this will make the light bulb go on in the minds of some: QUOTE: Even if you’re not interested in political warfare, political warfare may be interested in you. I wrote “maybe” because a neat trick of political warfare is the ability to bypass or neutralize resistance, like an island-hopping campaign. END QUOTE We must get better at political warfare if we want to be successful in strategic competition. This is going to become a seminal reference in my writings. I recommend that people read and reread this paragraph at least a dozen times. QUOTE: It is useful to know that Russia and China, among others, would be dumb not to wage political warfare against our interests and those of our democratic allies. Political warfare is inexpensive, especially relative to traditional warfare. Munitions, which include but go well beyond mere “information,” are cheap. The damage to physical infrastructure from political warfare is virtually or completely nil compared to a traditional invasion. If we want to be glib, we can throw in that political warfare is environmentally friendly. Political warfare is tolerant of mistakes and missteps. It allows for multiple and simultaneous, even potentially contradictory, lines of effort along multiple fronts, audiences, and territories. Further, political warfare can result in a deeper and longer-lasting positive result without post-invasion reconstruction, occupation troops, or possibly a directly appointed viceroy, depending on the objective. END QUOTE And I think this is the best definition of political warfare I have found: QUOTE: My definition of political warfare is derived primarily from Burnham: Political warfare is the expression of power for hostile intent through discrete, subversive, or overt means, short of open combat, onto another. It is not mere rivalry or competition, it may have strategic or tactical objectives, and it may operate in one or more areas—political, societal, economic, psychological, or other—that are available for exploitation to affect change.END QUOTE Political warfare: the obvious choice against our Maginot Line https://lnkd.in/erxHNuhW
Political warfare: the obvious choice against our Maginot Line
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The Synergistic Relationship between Lawfare and Cognitive Warfare Russia's recent disinformation campaign weaponized a key mechanism within the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), proving that even international treaties aren't immune to political games. Both this incident and a similar one with Cuba in 1997 highlight the weaponization of Article V for political leverage rather than genuine problem-solving. While the BWC lacks a robust verification system, Article V, designed for dispute resolution, became Russia's megaphone for spreading misinformation. This misuse disrupted treaty proceedings and exposed the need for a more pragmatic consultation approach. #geopoliticalrisk #misinformation #disinformation #lawfare #russia https://lnkd.in/gi38WuAy
False Russian claims hijacked the biological weapons treaty. Here’s how to reclaim it
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New report from GTI: "The Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare Directed Against Taiwan: Overview and Analysis." Discover the intricate methods used to undermine Taiwan’s sovereignty. https://ow.ly/FNK650RNOEn
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Interesting analysis of how China applies the concept of deterrence in a different, more instrumental way than the West…
Understanding China’s Approach to Deterrence
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