Cadet Voice - Extended Deterrence and Resilience in the Baltic States
Journal: Space and Defense
Year: 2021

The following USAFA cadet independent study was supported by the Academy’s Nuclear Weapons & Strategy minor and the Cadet Summer Language Immersion Program to Lithuania. With minor formatting changes, the paper here appears as submitted to the USSTRATCOM Larry D. Welch Writing Award and the summer Deterrence Symposium (Omaha, NE), July 31-Aug. 1, 2019, where it won junior division, first place. Since the end of the Second World War the United States has practiced extended deterrence as a means o