STRATCOM Commander: US Submarines Can 'Decimate' Russia, China

General John Hyten, answering a question on the current Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) doctrine during a hearing on the US Strategic Forces Posture and the Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request noted that countries like China and Russia can't do anything that the US "will not have the ability to respond to"… besides "a massive attack."

He was quick to calm down the House subcommittee on strategic forces that both countries don't know where the US submarines are located and assured that the subs "have the ability decimate their countries."

"Our submarines — they do not know where they are and they have the ability decimate their countries if we go down that path," John Hyten said.

A group of senators earlier addressed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urging him to start a dialogue on strategic stability with Russia. This comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin...