Commentary
Throughout the first Cold War and as the world slides into a second, the United States has relied on intercontinental-range strategic bombers to provide a slow and recallable leg to balance the high-speed and non-recallable land and sea-based ballistic missile legs of its nuclear deterrent “triad.”
With its public debut scheduled for Dec. 2, and with plans so far to purchase 100, the United States should consider how it might share the new Northrop Grumman second-generation B-21 stealth bomber with its allies to increase joint U.S.-allied deterrent power as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarks on wars for future global hegemony….