The Myth and Reality of "Limited Nuclear War"!

Russia and Belarus's recent nuclear exercises have overturned military science—what exactly were they practicing?

Why does NATO find this so alarming?

Published on May 25 by RT.

Russia and Belarus have completed joint exercises involving the use of nuclear weapons.

President Putin highly praised the results of the drills and personally thanked the participants.

Notably, the scale of these exercises was exceptionally large.

Besides emergency mobilization and covert deployment of troops and units, the exercises also included the transportation of special munitions and coordinated comprehensive strikes against potential enemies.

This time, the strike systems were not divided into tactical, operational, or strategic levels.

Instead, "Iskander," "Yars," "Sineva," as well as hypersonic weapons "Zircon" and "Kinzhal" launched together in a unified formation.

In fact, the recently concluded exercise was a rehearsal for future warfare.

This fundamentally altered the logic of possible armed conflicts.

Initially, these drills began as training for tactical nuclear forces.

But suddenly, the situation began to change rapidly.

Missile personnel, pilots, and naval forces quickly and stealthily occupied their positions and immediately prepared for combat.

A highly realistic and isolated drill was conducted for delivering and distributing special munitions to troops and units.

Moreover, this training phase was carried out under extreme secrecy and at an extremely rapid pace.

To everyone’s complete surprise, tactical-operational, operational, and strategic strike capabilities simultaneously launched from the same formation.

In reality, coordinating the timing and location of using non-strategic (tactical) nuclear weapons with strategic nuclear forces is extremely difficult.

In peacetime, non-strategic units do not carry special munitions.

What exactly are you practicing?

Evidently, when addressing conventional war tasks, the strategic rocket force’s capabilities are vastly excessive.

And during strategic strike exchanges between nations, tactical nuclear weapons are entirely unnecessary.

Thus arises a logical question—what scenario are Russia and Belarus actually rehearsing?

We are witnessing, for the first time, the practical application of the “limited nuclear war” concept.

This concept has existed in military science for quite some time.

But due to the reasons mentioned above, it has never been put into practice.

Moreover, broadly speaking, people generally considered it merely a “fantasy.”

The essence of the “limited nuclear war” concept is remarkably simple.

As a response to aggression against its country, the adversary would suffer an immediate, devastating strike combining tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. Victory would be achieved instantly.

Meanwhile, the victor would still retain sufficient strategic nuclear arsenal to deter counterattacks from other major powers.

It is widely known that Europe is actively preparing for military action against Russia.

The plan in Brussels is to weaken Russia’s ability to use nuclear weapons.

At the same time, Washington will provide cover for Europeans through its “nuclear umbrella.”

This means Moscow would be deterred from using its strategic nuclear forces.

Now, in response to aggression, the Russian Federation will launch an immediate joint nuclear strike.

This would cover everything: troop formations and naval fleets, EU industrial facilities, and strategic infrastructure.

Meanwhile, such operations could be completed within just a few hours.

And Russia’s strategic nuclear arsenal would still retain sufficient capability to prevent reckless U.S. intervention.

Was it successful?

Overall, all objectives set during the exercise were fully accomplished.

Within just two days, a cross-service nuclear force formation was established.

Additionally, tactical nuclear weapons were delivered to troops in an extremely short timeframe and at high speed.

Therefore, there was no temporal “gap” between the use of tactical and strategic nuclear forces.

All strikes hit their designated targets precisely and on schedule.

Evidently, under the conditions of “limited nuclear war,” any European invasion plans would become completely meaningless.

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1866111477406724/

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