Nuclear operations are back, and it’s time for the joint force to catch up. Jeremiah Aeschleman sits down with host Tom Spahr to discuss the implications of recent nuclear coercion from Russia and the rapid expansion of China’s arsenal. To meet these challenges, the joint force must move beyond the “ENDEX mindset,” in which any use of nuclear weapons leads to the end of the training exercise. Instead, the military must prepare for the reality of a nuclear-armed battlefield. Aeschleman provides commanders with clear advice about how to bring conventional-nuclear integration back to the forefront.
The first piece here is having our staffs understand there is life after the detonation. It’s big, lot of effects, but there’s life after that.
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Jeremiah Aeschleman is a colonel and a Nuclear and CWMD (FA52) officer with 35 years of service in the U.S. Army. He is an AY19 graduate of the U.S. Army War College Resident Course and is grateful to be back teaching in the Department of Military Strategy, Plans, and Operations. He served in all aspects of the nuclear enterprise including, command and control, consequence management, targeting, weapon effects, non/counter-proliferation, and DOE’s mission to build the deterrent.
Thomas W. Spahr is the DeSerio Chair of Strategic and Theater Intelligence at the U.S. Army War College. He is a retired colonel in the U.S. Army and holds a Ph.D. in History from The Ohio State University. He teaches courses at the Army War College on Military Campaigning and Intelligence.
The views expressed in this presentation are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army War College, U.S. Army, or Department of Defense.
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