Deterrence Failures and Deterrence Strategies,

Abstract

The alternative perspective developed in this essay contends that a nation's long-term political, economic, and social prospects dominate narrow military considerations in a decision on whether or not to go to war. If long-term prospects seem bright to a nation's NCA(National Command Authority), it will find the current state of affairs on the whole acceptable. In this case a nation might not go to war even when presented with certain military success. On the other hand, if long-term prospects seem dim to a nation's NCA, it will find the current state of affairs intolerable, in that existing trends define those long-term developments. In this case a nation might go to war in the face of likely military defeat.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA043263

Entities

People

  • Michael E. Brown

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Case Studies
  • Command And Control
  • Defense Systems
  • Deterrence
  • Economic Development
  • Far East
  • Korean War
  • Materials
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • New York
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Second World War
  • Suez Canal
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies