ATACMS Missiles: Enhancing Taiwan's Defense Capabilities and Ukraine's Deterrent Effect

ATACMS episode:

- What variants of the missile exist

- What unique advantages they offer over already provided Storm Shadows / SCALP-EGs from UK and France

- How many missiles may exist in the US inventory and why some can be provided to Ukraine without jeopardizing US military readiness

- Why the German Taurus missile is also a much needed munition for Ukraine

- The state of production of the next-generation Precision Strike Missile and its advantages over ATACMS

- How ATACMS usage in Ukraine might enhance deterrence in the Indo-Pacific

Dmitri Alperovitch sits down with Colby Badhwar, a Canadian security analyst, who has written an extensive X thread on ATACMS, to discuss these topics

Preorder link for Dmitri's upcoming book "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CF1TKHY2

Colby's ATACMS thread: https://x.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1703757651623162271