I remembered this document because it includes a passage on the succesful KGB/GRU intel operation in Lebanon, which was one of the starting points of my previous thread on anti-terrorist strategies, a ...

In the wake of the anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings and the release of the movie "Oppenheimer," it's a good time to talk about ending the threat of these dreadful weapons. I ...

War with North Korea became more likely with the recent appointments of hawks John Bolton and Mike Pompeo as national security advisor and secretary of state. While the White House has confirmed that ...

President Bush's new concept of deterrence in the post-Cold War world, which embraces the U.S. deploying offensive and defensive forces, stands in sharp contrast to deterrence strategy outlined in a ...

A military attack on Iraq would be a profound and costly mistake, declare 33 scholars of international relations in a statement that is to appear as an advertisement in The New York Times. The ...

The legal and administrative apparatus responsible for the social control of organizations relies extensively on the deterrent effects of punishment. This strategy presumes a rational choice model of ...

“Deterrence is concerned with influencing the choices that another party will make, and doing it by influencing his expectations of how we will behave.” — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict ...

I urge citizens to oppose the Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act of 2005. This legislation would dramatically expand the use of the death penalty and could result in the conviction of ...

Israel’s original military doctrine, formulated by David Ben-Gurion, emphasized three elements: deterrence, early warning, ...