James Blackwell Author, Military Analyst and Lecturer

Military Analyst, Author, Lecturer

James Blackwell's Published Resources

download Report of the Secretary of Defense Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Management: Phase I – The Air Force’s Nuclear Mission

Report of the Secretary of Defense Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Management: Phase I – The Air Force’s Nuclear Mission

Report of the Secretary of Defense Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Management: Phase I – The Air Force’s Nuclear Mission, The Honorable James R. Schlesinger, Chairman, General Michael P.C. Carns, USAF (Ret), Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr., USN (Ret), The Honorable J.D. Crouch, The Honorable John J. Hamre, The Honorable Jacques S. Gansler, The Honorable Franklin C. Miller, Mr. Christopher A. Williams, September 2008.
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Categories: Nuclear Weapons Policy & Strategy Publications
download Report of the Secretary of Defense Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Management: Phase II – Review of the DoD Nuclear Mission

Report of the Secretary of Defense Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Management: Phase II – Review of the DoD Nuclear Mission

Report of the Secretary of Defense Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Management: Phase II – Review of the DoD Nuclear Mission, The Honorable James R. Schlesinger, Chairman, General Michael P.C. Carns, USAF (Ret), Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr., USN (Ret), The Honorable J.D. Crouch, The Honorable John J. Hamre, The Honorable Jacques S. Gansler, The Honorable Franklin C. Miller, Mr. Christopher A. Williams, December 2008.
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Categories: Nuclear Weapons Policy & Strategy Publications
download An Assessment of the U.S.-Russia Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons Balance

An Assessment of the U.S.-Russia Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons Balance

January, 2021 | P-14248
The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review points to the differential in U.S.-Russia non-strategic nuclear forces as driving a perception that Russia's "greater number and variety of non-strategic nuclear systems provide a coercive advantage in crises and at lower levels of conflict." This paper characterizes the nature and meaning of asymmetries between non-strategic nuclear forces of the United States and Russia.
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Categories: Nuclear Weapons Policy & Strategy Publications