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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Selected Readings from Military Thought, 1963-1973
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Selected Readings in Nuclear and Chemical Operations
Author: Parameters
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Air University Review
Author: The Friday Review of Defense Literature
Author: Soviet Ballistic Missile Defense and the Western Alliance
Author: David Scott YostPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674826106
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Yost suggests that the challenges for Western policy posed by Soviet ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs stem partly from Soviet military programs, Soviet arms control policies, and Soviet public diplomacy campaigns, and partly from the West's own intra-alliance disagreements and lack of consensus about Western security requirements.
Inadvertent Escalation
Author: Barry R. PosenPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080146837X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation. Knowledge of these hidden pressures, he believes, may help some future decision maker avoid catastrophe.Building a formidable argument that moves with cumulative force, he details the way in which escalation could occur not by mindless accident, or by deliberate preference for nuclear escalation, but rather as a natural accompaniment of land, naval, or air warfare at the conventional level. Posen bases his analysis on an empirical study of the east-west military competition in Europe during the 1980s, using a conceptual framework drawn from international relations theory, organization theory, and strategic theory.The lessons of his book, however, go well beyond the east-west competition. Since his observations are relevant to all military competitions between states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, his book speaks to some of the problems that attend the proliferation of nuclear weapons in longstanding regional conflicts. Optimism that small and medium nuclear powers can easily achieve "stable" nuclear balances is, he believes, unwarranted.
Technical Abstract Bulletin
Author: Military Review
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Operational and Strategic Lessons of the War in Afghanistan, 1979-90
Author: Stephen BlankPublisher:
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Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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