My Upcoming TV Interview on "Securing America" with Frank Gaffney

The show will air on the Real America's Voice News Network from 9-10pm EST on September 4th and will be simulcast on nearly 200 American Family Network radio stations across the country

I am pleased to announce that I am scheduled to be interviewed on the Securing America TV show hosted by former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney on Real America's Voice news network this Friday, September 2nd, from 3pm-4pm EST. It will be broadcast on Dish Network Channel 219 and simulcast on the American Family Network’s nearly 200 radio stations across the country. Frank currently serves as Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy where I worked briefly as a Research Assistant over twenty-three years ago while I was a graduate student at Georgetown University.

Our discussion will center on the growing imbalance in nuclear forces between the US and the Sino-Russian alliance as well as the growing threat of simultaneous war with Russia, China and North Korea over Taiwan and the best strategy to combat China’s ultimate goal of becoming the global hegemon. The People’s Republic of China is on track to reach 4,000 deployed strategic nuclear weapons by 2024 while the U.S. only has 1,515 deployed strategic nuclear warheads. Russia is believed to have 2,400-3,300 with the capability of deploying up to 7,500 strategic warheads on their current strategic launch systems.

Russia has announced it will deploy 50 Sarmat super-heavy ICBMs next month. While its official payload is no more than 16 warheads or 24 Avanguard hypersonic glide vehicles, some reports indicate it is capable of carrying up to 50 low-yield nuclear warheads pre missile. Russian state media has boasted that only two Sarmat ICBM’s would be necessary to destroy every U.S. city with a population of over 500,000 people. They have also announced their Zircon nuclear submarine launched hypersonic missiles will be operational next month. Before he invaded Ukraine, Putin threatened to deploy Russian nuclear submarines carrying Zircon hypersonic missiles within 200 miles of Washington, DC to destroy the capital before Biden could even board Air Force One. Frank Gaffney recently warned that a Russian nuclear missile submarine was recently located in the Chesapeake Bay where the warning time could be reduced even further. 

In addition, the first Belgorod Poseidon nuclear missile submarine, Generalissimo Suvorov, has been commissioned and is currently undergoing sea trials. Once it is fully equipped with six Poseidon underwater drones armed with 100 MT warheads, it will likely have more nuclear explosive firepower than the entire US nuclear arsenal, combined. Despite this growing nuclear missile gap, not a single member of Congress that I know of is on record publicly supporting an increase of the US nuclear arsenal by even one warhead. I believe that it is this growing nuclear imbalance that has emboldened Russia and China to become more brazen in their international aggressions against Ukraine and Taiwan and that the Biden administration and Congress must act quickly to redeploy our 2,000 partially dismantled strategic nuclear warheads The U.S. has in reserve atop our Trident II SLBMs and Minuteman III ICBMs to help close the gap.

The Biden administration has reportedly assessed that Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to invade Taiwan by the end of next year. In the event the U.S. were to defend Taiwan militarily as Biden has threatened to do, Russia and North Korea would likely join China in staging joint offensive operations against us, likely starting with nuclear/EMP 'Pearl Harbor' strikes against US bases in Japan, the Northern Marianas and Guam. North Korea would likely take advantage with our preoccupation with the PRC and invade South Korea at the same time China blockades and/or invades Taiwan while Russia could fully mobilize its two million reserve troops and use massive cyber/EMP attacks and possibly tactical nuclear weapons to quickly overrun both the Baltics and Ukraine, presenting us with a three front war (while Iran could undertake military aggressions in the Middle East making it a four front war), none of which the U.S. with its weakened military would be able to respond to effectively. Alternatively, there are some indications that Russia and China could stage joint amphibious invasions of Japan, Alaska and Hawaii while Taiwan is slowly strangled with a Chinese air and naval blockade. Once the U.S. is neutralized and/or if the U.S. was unable or unwilling to break the Chinese blockade, Taiwan would be forced to surrender largely without a fight, thus alleviating the need for a costly Chinese airborne and amphibious invasion.

The question is how would President Biden respond to nuclear strikes on US military bases abroad and the territory of US allies? Given his aversion to nuclear weapons, I believe he would likely try to de-escalate to avoid a potential full nuclear exchange with both Russia and China. If not, and Biden were to respond with even conventional bombing strikes on mainland China, China would most likely immediately retaliate by launching a nuclear/EMP/cyber first strike on the US homeland.

In the realization that the battle for Taiwan is just a part of a much larger and more prolonged global struggle with the PRC, I have proposed a new strategy for how we can counter the rise of China while continuing to safeguard all of our Treaty allies in the Pacific. Key elements of this strategy include neutralizing the Sino-Russian alliance by making peace, not war with Russia as Dr. Peter Pry advocated we do and forming a new U.S.-led anti-China trade bloc including Canada, Japan, Australia and Western Europe which would completely decouple our economies from the PRC and end our dependencies on Chinese products as a counterweight to China's Belt and Road Initiative, which they hope to use to establish economic hegemony over the entire world. 

© David T. Pyne 2022

David T. Pyne, Esq. is a former U.S. Army combat arms and Headquarters staff officer, who was in charge of armaments cooperation with the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas from 2000-2003, with an M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. He currently serves as Deputy Director of National Operations for the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and is a contributor to Dr. Peter Pry’s book “Blackout Warfare” as well as the upcoming book “Will America Be Protected?” which is due to be released later this year. He also serves as the host of the Defend America Radio Show on KTALK AM 1640 and as Editor of “The Real War” newsletter at dpyne.substack.com. He may be reached at emptaskforce.ut@gmail.com.