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Strategic War Termination
Av Stephen J. Cimbala, Stephen J. Cimbala
Inbunden, 1986
929 kr
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The first book to analyze strategic war termination from a policy perspective, Strategic War Termination explores present US policy on termination and recommends strategies for improving it. Taking into account the impact of new weapons technologies, adversaries' expectations, and counter-command …
Challenges to Deterrence
Resources, Technology, and Policy
Inbunden, 1987
1070 kr
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Challenge to Deterrence is based on a panel discussion from the 1985 American Political Science Association meeting in New Orleans. In this comprehensive study, eminent scholars address all aspects of U.S. deterrence policy from both technical and policy aspects. Along with discussions on …
Soviet Challenge in the 1990s
Av Stephen J. Cimbala, Stephen J. Cimbala
Inbunden, 1989
1064 kr
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The proverbial Soviet enigma has never seemed more elusive to Western analysts than now. General Secretary Gorbachev's demonstrated willingness to reallocate resources, the upheavals in the internal Soviet system wrought by perestroika and glasnost, and a new strategic reliance on defensive …
Nuclear Strategizing
Deterrence and Reality
Inbunden, 1988
1070 kr
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This is an excellent advanced study in strategy in the nuclear age. Cimbala covers the field thoroughly. He challenges much of the conventional and established approaches to deterrence and crisis management. . . . Cimbala's work is a valuable and refreshing addition to the literature. Scholars will …
Nuclear Endings
Stopping War on Time
Inbunden, 1989
1064 kr
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If a nuclear war between American and Soviet forces or the forces of their allies were to start, how would it end? This soberting analysis, one of the few published treatments of War termination, identifies the policies and strategic issues involved in the attempt to control and end a nuclear war …
Conflict Termination in Europe
Games Against War
Inbunden, 1990
1068 kr
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An important contribution to the international relations and military studies literature, this study considers the problem of conflict termination in Europe--an area of immense strategic importance to both the United States and the Soviet Union. The author argues that a well-thought-out policy for …
Strategy After Deterrence
Inbunden, 1991
715 kr
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The profound political changes in the USSR and Eastern Europe during 1989 have forced the United States and its Western European allies to reevaluate both their long held military strategy of nuclear deterrence and the traditional role of NATO in European affairs. In this volume, Stephen Cimbala …
Force and Diplomacy in the Future
Inbunden, 1992
1068 kr
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This study is an initial effort to assess the post-Cold War international environment in terms of its implications for the relationship between force and policy. This relationship between force and policy in the future, based on a retrospective look at U.S., allied NATO, and Soviet doctrine …
Past and Future of Nuclear Deterrence
Inbunden, 1998
1068 kr
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As proven by the recent discovery of ongoing research and tests in India and Pakistan, the nuclear age is not dead. Nuclear weapons, deployed in plentiful numbers during the Cold War by the Americans and Soviets, and, in lesser numbers, by others, were nevertheless controlled in their use by the …
Deterrence and Nuclear Proliferation in the Twenty-First Century
Av Stephen J. Cimbala, Stephen J. Cimbala
Inbunden, 2000
856 kr
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This edited collection considers the future of nuclear weapons in world politics in terms of security issues that are important for U.S. and other policy makers. The spread of nuclear weapons also is related to the equally dangerous proliferation of other weapons of mass destruction, including …
Nuclear Strategy in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2000
927 kr
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The future of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy in the 21st century is not entirely predictable from the Cold War past. Nor is it easy to foresee on the basis of what has happened since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Cimbala contends that nuclear weapons and the psychology of nuclear …
Clausewitz and Chaos
Friction in War and Military Policy
Inbunden, 2000
1068 kr
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The great Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, in his classic On War, introduced the idea of friction in war. Friction was one of the most important ideas that Clausewitz put forward. His application of the term is generally taken to be limited to events on the field of battle. But had …
New Nuclear Century
Strategic Stability and Arms Control
Av Stephen J. Cimbala, James Scouras
Inbunden, 2002
927 kr
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Cimbala and Scouras examine the issues related to the control of nuclear weapons in the early 21st century. These issues are both technical and policy oriented; science and values are commingled. This means that arguments about nuclear strategy, arms control, and proliferation are apt to be …
Through a Glass Darkly
Looking at Conflict Prevention, Management, and Termination
Inbunden, 2001
1053 kr
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Cimbala shows why the prevention, management, and concluding of war all require an understanding of the subjective aspects of decision making as well as the hardware and tactics of military operations. A review of past cases of U.S. security policy decision making and a preview of some future …
Dead Volcano
The Background and Effects of Nuclear War Complacency
Inbunden, 2002
1100 kr
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Cimbala argues that nuclear complacency is based on a misreading of history and on unsound political and military analysis. The stability factors built into the Cold War international system are now missing. The spread of nuclear weapons after the Cold War moved toward regional actors outside of …
Military Persuasion in War and Policy
The Power of Soft
Inbunden, 2002
1068 kr
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Cimbala analyzes military persuasion—the art of using armed force to support diplomacy, deterrence, crisis management, unconventional conflicts, peace operations, and other military activities short of major conventional war. As he shows, military persuasion requires that policy makers and …
Through a Glass Darkly
Looking at Conflict Prevention, Management, and Termination
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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Cimbala shows why the prevention, management, and concluding of war all require an understanding of the subjective aspects of decision making as well as the hardware and tactics of military operations. A review of past cases of U.S. security policy decision making and a preview of some future …
Nuclear Strategy in the Twenty-First Century
E-bok, 2000
1021 kr
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The future of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy in the 21st century is not entirely predictable from the Cold War past. Nor is it easy to foresee on the basis of what has happened since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Cimbala contends that nuclear weapons and the psychology of nuclear …
New Nuclear Century
Strategic Stability and Arms Control
Av Stephen J. Cimbala, James Scouras
E-bok, 2002
1013 kr
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Cimbala and Scouras examine the issues related to the control of nuclear weapons in the early 21st century. These issues are both technical and policy oriented; science and values are commingled. This means that arguments about nuclear strategy, arms control, and proliferation are apt to be …
Strategic Impasse
Offense, Defense, and Deterrence Theory and Practice
Inbunden, 1989
1068 kr
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There is probably no area of more crucial concern nor one more subject to possible misunderstanding and riddled with paradox than nuclear weapons and their use, not only in war, but as deterrents to war. In Strategic Impasse, Cimbala examines the critical issues, problems, and paradoxes inherent in …
First Strike Stability
Deterrence after Containment
Inbunden, 1990
1068 kr
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The lifting of the Iron Curtain in response to pressures for democratic reform in the Eastern Bloc nations and the refusal of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to use the Red Army to police countries of the Warsaw Pact have led to a radically changed international environment. Preceded by over 40 …
Controlling and Ending Conflict
Issues Before and After the Cold War
Av Stephen J. Cimbala, Sidney Waldman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1100 kr
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Knowing how to end war and to prevent the escalation of conflict is of paramount importance today when weapons of mass destruction have spread beyond the control of major powers and democratically accountable governments, and when regional and global stability have become more precarious. Stephen …
Conflict Termination and Military Strategy
"Coercion, Persuasion, and War"
Inbunden, 2019
2521 kr
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Although considerable attention has been paid to deterrence theory and crisis management, the equally important topic of ending wars has been virtually ignored. Conflict termination is the stepchild of U.S. strategy for a number of reasons. Thinking about how wars should end presupposes acceptance …
Conflict Termination and Military Strategy
"Coercion, Persuasion, and War"
Häftad, 2020
694 kr
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This book examines a wide variety of topics, ranging from Soviet and U.S. views on conflict termination to past, present, and future U.S. military service contributions. It demonstrates the importance of careful evaluation of conflict termination goals during peacetime.
Technology, Strategy, And Politics Of Sdi
Inbunden, 2020
2521 kr
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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to develop a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system has both short-range and long-range risks as well as potential benefits. For the most part, however, strategic, technological, and political issues relevant to SDI have been analyzed in isolation from one …
Technology, Strategy, And Politics Of Sdi
Häftad, 2022
650 kr
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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to develop a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system has both short-range and long-range risks as well as potential benefits. For the most part, however, strategic, technological, and political issues relevant to SDI have been analyzed in isolation from one …
US, NATO and Military Burden-Sharing
Av Stephen J. Cimbala, Peter Forster
Inbunden, 2004
2516 kr
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This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in which a state views its and others' responsibilities and burdens for responding to international crises. It assesses the distribution of the costs of …
Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century
The New Disorder
Inbunden, 2009
2749 kr
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This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.Nuclear weapons served as stabilizing forces during the Cold War, or the First Nuclear Age, on account of their capability for destruction, the fear that this created among …
Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century
The New Disorder
Häftad, 2012
853 kr
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This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.Nuclear weapons served as stabilizing forces during the Cold War, or the First Nuclear Age, on account of their capability for destruction, the fear that this created among …
