Government Matters | October 10, 2021 | Col (Ret.) Mark Gunzinger |
Col (Ret.) Mark Gunzinger, director of Future Concepts and Capability Assessments at The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and former deputy assistant secretary of defense, shared the results of a survey on voters sampled to mimic the 2020 election. The survey found 91 percent of respondents thought modernizing the United States’ nuclear deterrent system should be a priority for the Defense Department. The nuclear triad will need modernizing and recapitalizing over the next decade, a cost that would only be about 3.7 percent of the defense budget.