"Degradated"???

[Jonathon Green]

I don't know 'degradated' but it must relate the old nuclear war jargon
'degrade', i.e. to knock out, and its extention 'graceful degradation',
(otherise known as 'failsoft'), a concept that lay behind the idea of a
possibly "winnable" and/or "limited" nuclear war: that one's own command,
control and communications facilities, and the weapons that they administer
will survive longer, or at least collapse less speedily than those of the
enemy. They will thus continue (albeit damaged) to work to a greater effect
than those of the enemy. It was accepted that massive loss and destruction
on both sides will acompany this process; thus it would seem that such a
victory would merely go to the side that was last to die of its wounds.

Jonathon Green