{"id":40375,"date":"2018-10-19T20:19:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smg.go-vip.net\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/10\/19\/us-reportedly-poised-to-abandon-key-arms-control-treaty-with-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:01:10","slug":"us-reportedly-poised-to-abandon-key-arms-control-treaty-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/10\/19\/us-reportedly-poised-to-abandon-key-arms-control-treaty-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"US reportedly poised to abandon key arms control treaty with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Trump administration is moving to abandon the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, per multiple reports, removing a key arms control treaty between the United States and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/oct\/19\/john-bolton-russia-nuclear-arms-deal-trump-lobbying?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=_blank>The Guardian<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/19\/us\/politics\/russia-nuclear-arms-treaty-trump-administration.html?smtyp=cur&#038;smid=tw-nytimes\" target=_blank>The New York Times<\/a>, national security adviser John Bolton has recommended the U.S. leave the agreement and will inform Russia of the move next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The INF Treaty, signed between the U.S. and Russia in 1987, bans all land-based cruise missiles with a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. While the Obama administration had accused Moscow of violating the agreement, Pentagon officials have been more vocal under the Trump administration about their concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The issue became public due to March 2017 comments from Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, saying Russia\u2019s deployment of a ground-based cruise missile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2017\/03\/08\/us-general-says-russia-has-deployed-banned-missile\/\" target=_blank>violated the agreement<\/a>. Russia denied that, but since Selva\u2019s speech, Defense Department officials have been increasingly outgoing with their concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To those officials, if Russia is violating the agreement while the U.S. is holding to its standards, it harms America\u2019s defensive posture. With those concerns in mind, since coming to office, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has been publicly ambivalent about the value of the treaty, particularly when asked about the agreement on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During an Oct. 2 NATO meeting, Mattis seemed to hint that a decision on America\u2019s role in the INF agreement was coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2018\/10\/02\/us-nato-envoy-warns-russia-to-halt-new-missile-development\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP_18191456510004.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US NATO envoy warns Russia to halt new missile development<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The U.S. envoy to NATO on Tuesday said that Russia must halt development of new missiles that could carry nuclear warheads and warned that the United States could \u201ctake out\u201d the system if it becomes operational.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI want the advice from the NATO nations, what do we do with a treaty that two nations entered into, one is still living by \u2014 that\u2019s us, the United States \u2014 and Russia is not,\u201d Mattis told media. \u201cSo I\u2019m going to lay out the situation, which we\u2019ve discussed before here at NATO. But I want their advice as I return to Washington, D.C., and enter into these discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI cannot forecast where it will go. It&#8217;s a decision for the president. But I can tell you that both on Capitol Hill and in the State Department, there&#8217;s a lot of concern about the situation. And I&#8217;ll return with the advice of our allies and engage that discussion to determine the way ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two days later, Mattis underscored his comments, saying: \u201cRussia must return to compliance with the INF Treaty, or the U.S. will need to respond to its cavalier disregard of the treaty\u2019s specific limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMake no mistake: The current situation with Russia in blatant violation of this treaty is untenable, and we discussed this situation at length during this ministerial meeting among trusted allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether leaving the INF Treaty could imperil negotiations on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2017\/02\/23\/trump-threats-to-new-start-could-imperil-nuclear-modernization-programs\/\" target=_blank>New START nuclear reduction treaty<\/a> is unclear. Early in his presidency, Donald Trump was a vocal critic of the agreement, calling it \u201cone-sided\u201d and \u201cbad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/smr\/nuclear-triad\/2018\/02\/06\/will-the-us-trade-its-new-sub-launched-cruise-missile-for-russian-arms-treaty-compliance\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Mattis_NATO_Resize.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Will the US trade its new sub-launched cruise missile for Russian arms treaty compliance?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Pentagon wants a new nuclear-armed cruise missile. But is it just a ploy to get Russia to change its tune on an arms treaty?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Pros and cons<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rebecca Heinrichs, an analyst with the Hudson Institute, said: \u201cIt makes no sense to remain party to treaties of which the United States is the only one complying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTreaties are not ornament pieces to be collected; they\u2019re supposed to be tools that serve U.S. interests. The Russians have been on notice to become compliant for years now. The Obama administration tried to force them to comply and so has the Trump administration,\u201d Heinrichs added. \u201cFor Bolton, the tolerance for being treated as suckers is exceptionally low.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists believes that leaving the treaty would send a powerful signal to nations like China that developing ground-based cruise missiles is acceptable, signaling \u201ca new dynamic phase where countries would compete to deploy and counter-deploy INF weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, he worries that withdrawing from the INF goes hand in hand with deploying such weapons to Europe, which could \u201ctrigger widespread political disputes in Europe and within NATO. Trump would further divide NATO, rather than strengthen the alliance, and thus grant Putin one of his most important foreign policy objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOverall, defense hawks in Moscow and Washington appear to have hijacked foreign policy and thrown the arms control baby out with the bath water instead of trying to repair relations and repair treaties and strengthen international security,\u201d Kristensen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even before today\u2019s news, the U.S. was working to fund research and development on a ground-based cruise missile, a system banned under the INF agreement. The line from the Pentagon throughout 2018 has been that such a weapon would be designed but not deployed, staying with the treaty boundaries while providing a potential threat or trade-off for negotiations with Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The threat of upgraded nuclear capabilities has a public topic of discussion by Pentagon officials as part of a broader negotiation to try and force Russia back into compliance on the treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greg Weaver, then deputy director for strategic stability on the Joint Staff J5 directorate, said during a Feb. 1 meeting with media that he viewed the announced development of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2018\/02\/02\/the-us-could-be-getting-2-new-nuclear-capabilities-here-are-the-details\/\" target=\"_blank\">sea-launched nuclear cruise missile<\/a>, allowed within the INF Treaty boundaries, as part of a potential trade-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWere Russia to agree to return to verifiable arms control measures to address that imbalance in nonstrategic nuclear forces, the U.S. might agree to limit or forgo [acquiring] a nuclear SLCM,\u201d Weaver said then. \u201cThis is a response to Russian expansion of their capability and the nature of their strategy and doctrine. The United States is not arms racing. We are responding to Russian initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mattis picked that thread up during a Feb. 6 House Armed Services Committee hearing, saying: \u201cI want to make certain that our negotiators have something to negotiate with, that we want Russia back into compliance. We do not want to forgo the INF [Treaty], but at the same time we have options if Russia continues to go down this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Tara Copp with Military Times contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon officials have raised concerns about Russia&#8217;s compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty for several 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