Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Tuesday was Veterans Day in the United States, once called Armistice Day here and Remembrance Day in Britain. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, an armistice, not a peace treaty, was signed ending the fighting between Germany and the Allies.
Today, as nuclear threats and warnings over testing and new weapons cast a dangerous pall over geopolitics, it is time to reconsider our national security strategies and the basic ideas or slogans underpinning them.
Too often, the Trump administration has made pronouncements and issued orders well before sufficient analysis has been made to verify each one and the assumptions rigorously challenged. A number of examples are self-evident.
In the Pentagon, the Defense Policy Guidance, or DPG, has already been issued well in advance of the National Defense and Military Strategies.
President Donald Trump, despite the opposition of the technical community, has called for a resumption of nuclear testing. He also ordered a Golden Dome to protect the nation from enemy missile attacks, very likely without calling for a preliminary analysis to determine feasibility, costs and likely responses by potential adversaries.
