Strategic Warning and General War: A Look at the Conceptual Issues.

Abstract

Explores conceptual issues related to strategic warning of general nuclear war. A 'threat/response cycle' is proposed as a conceptual model of warning situations and used to explore the differences between tactical and strategic warning. Response to strategic warning is discussed, as is the assessment of the utility of strategic warning. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA077806

Entities

People

  • Ralph Strauch

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • California
  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Crisis Management
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Judgment
  • Probability
  • Second World War
  • Strategic Warning
  • Tactical Warning
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies