Obama defense doctrine means pre-emptive disarmament

By Hugh Hewitt
Examiner Columnist
April 12, 2010

President Obama unveiled a radical shift in American military doctrine last week that ought to be known as "the Obama Doctrine: the embrace of unilateral, pre-emptive disarmament."
The new policy was announced in a handful of sentences in the just released "Nuclear Posture Review Report" ("NPR").

The two passages that are genuinely radical and that mark a significant break with all of post-World War II history have not received much attention and deserve underlining and sustained debate, especially in Congress.

The first comes at Page xiv:
"The United States will not develop new nuclear warheads. Life Extension Programs (LEPs) will use only nuclear components based on previously tested designs, and will not support new military missions or provide for new military capabilities." (Emphasis added) the rest