Pentagon Prepares New Nuclear Strategy Focused on Tactical Weapons

☢️ DOCTRINE — Washington revising nuclear options while its conventional stocks are spent. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With THAAD at 20% and long-range missiles depleted, the timing of this doctrine shift isn't coincidental — it's compensatory. Tactical nuclear options lower the threshold for use in regional conflict, signaling to Tehran and Beijing that Washington's answer to conventional exhaustion isn't restraint. Iran's negotiators in Oman now sit across from a different deterrence calculus.