The results of this study show that while TNS does provide the descriptive power necessary to help us better understand coercion, denial has some significant shortcomings. The military can settle these disputes in many different ways ranging from total military defeat to coercion or intimidation.
Military coercion occurs both in and out of combat.
In combat, coercion is used to obtain favorable conditions to end the conflict without requiring total military victory over the adversary. Military coercion outside of war elicits concessions from an adversary without the high cost usually associated with conventional military action. Therefore, other things being equal, successful coercion is usually less costly than total military victory. Many theories have arisen to describe how best to use the military as a coercive tool. This thesis develops another of these coercive theories.