A Disputation on the Strategy of Countering WMD

Disputation on the Strategy of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, January 2012, unpublished.

This document was recently found nailed to the doors of the famous Lincoln Church, which holds the Canon of Scriptures on Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). It is a critique of the U.S. government's strategy for countering WMD, with a particular focus on the failure to distinguish strategies to counter the threat of adversarial nations employing nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons from the threat of sub-state actors (notably, transnational terrorist groups) who might use chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) hazards or explosive weapons against non-combatants. In particular, it decries the efforts of a 'WMD priesthood' and its efforts to develop unique and stand-alone counter-WMD concepts, rather than integrating its efforts within existing security strategies, concepts, and plans.