Challenges to Deterrence: Resources, Technology, and Policy

by Stephen J. Cimbala

Overview

Challenge to Deterrence is based on a panel discussion from the 1985 American Political Science Association meeting in New Orleans. In this comprehensive study, eminent scholars address all aspects of U.S. deterrence policy from both technical and policy aspects. Along with discussions on technology currently available to the U.S. and how it can be used more effectively, contributors speculate on Soviet strategic planning and how the U.S. can get allies, such as Japan and Israel, more involved in deterrence activity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275923501
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/19/1987
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)

About the Author

STEPHEN J. CIMBALA is Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Stephen J. Cimbala
Part I: The Evolving Strategic Environment: Implications for Strategy and Armed Forces
On the Future Strategic Environment by Carnes Lord
Resolution or Revolution in Strategic Nuclear Affairs by Kevin N. Lewis
Deterrence, Peacekeeping, and Combat Orientation in the U.S. Army by David R. Segal, Jesse J. Harris, Joseph M. Rothberg, and David H. Marlowe
Deterrence May Require Mixed Strategies by Dagobert L. Brito and Michael D. Intriligator
Part II: Unhinging Deterrence: Imminent Risks and Challenges to Stability
Trends Toward Crisis Instability: Increasing the Danger of Nuclear War by Charles F. Hermann
Nuclear Deterrence and Strategic Surprise by Patrick M. Morgan
Limited War and Nuclear Weapons: Will Washington and Moscow Have to Swap Doctrine? by George H. Quester
Approaching Armageddon: Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear War in the Middle East by Louis Rene Beres
Part III: The Evolving Geopolitics of Nuclear-Strategy Basing for the 1990s
U.S. Naval Strategy: A Global View by John Allen Williams
Europe's Conventional Defense by Stephen P. Gibert
Part IV: Future Forces Structures and Deterrence Stability: Issues of Cost and Strategy
Midgetman Small ICBM: Issues for Deterrence in the 1990s by Jonathan Medalia
Trident and Credible Deterrence: The Sea-Space Link by D. Douglas Dalgleish and Larry Schweikart
How Should We Retaliate? Slow Down and Live by Stephen J. Cimbala
Bibliography