Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations
Subtitle: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: March 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780833032201
Subjects: Defence strategy, planning & research; United States; Military policy; International Relations - General; History; Politics / Current Events; Military; USA; National security; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism; World politics; Military - United States; 21st century; Armed Forces
First sentence: In their classic work Deterrence in American Foreign Policy, Alexander George and Richard Smoke noted that deterrence, although inherently complex in application, was conceptually simple: "the persuasion of one's opponent that the costs and/or risks of a given course of action he might take outweigh its benefits."