In the concluding installment of The Low-Cost Destruction Threshold Doctrine, Nicolin Decker examines the governance problem created when destructive capability becomes cheaper, distributed, reproducible, and increasingly embedded within civilian infrastructure and commercial systems.

The central question is no longer simply who possesses the weapon. It is whether law, command discipline, intelligence, institutions, alliances, and political leadership can reproduce restraint as quickly as modern systems reproduce force.

🔹 Core Insight

The offense may justify a response. It does not establish the target.

A lawful right of self-defense does not determine the legality of a particular attack. Military-objective classification, anticipated advantage, civilian harm, proportionality, pr ...