It ensures that our strategic nuclear forces will be equivalent to those of the Soviet Union and that deterrence against nuclear war will be maintained; 2.
By definition deterrence requires that we shape Soviet assessments about the risks of war, assessments they will make using their doctrine, not ours.
To split hairs of deterrence over confirmed social hyenas, is to furnish them with the last formula from which to tear things.
When refractory units will not cooperate to that end, the aim of society must be for deterrence that protects society from them, and no apology whatsoever to them for the deterrence.
What the deterrence in a comparatively short prison term that leaves the prisoner with a firm grip on his bundle of loot?
The aim of punishment is the reform of the evil doer and the deterrence of others.
Nature has provided as far as possible for deterrence from over-interest.
We have developed a realistic military strategy to deter threats to peace and to protect freedom if deterrence fails.
These personal experiences are substantiated by extensive data giving overwhelming proof of the utter futility of prisons as a means of deterrence or reform.
To do so is precisely to approve the ferocious old treatment, to which, as I conceive, the theory of simpledeterrence was an excellent corrective, in so far as it at least implied a definite limit to the indulgence of fiercer passions.
For, to say nothing else, the mere deterrence of a certain number of crimes is an entirely insufficient measure of the effect of the law.
A new deterrence calculus combines the need to deter terrorists and supporters from contemplating a WMD attack and, failing that, to dissuade them from actually conducting an attack.
We require a range of deterrence strategies that are tailored to the situation and the adversary.
The challenge is that should deterrence fail, the execution of a response based on Rapid Dominance must be proportional to the threat, yet decisive enough to convey the right degree of Shock and Awe.
For five decades, we have been successful in applying containment and deterrence in the Cold War.
Third, what are the political implications of Rapid Dominance in both broad and specific applications and could this lead to a form of political deterrence to underwrite future U.
In the most approximate sense, and we emphasize approximate, the analogy with nuclear deterrence might be drawn.
On one hand, if this force capability can be achieved and Shock and Awe administered to affect an adversary's will, can a form of political deterrence be created?
The challenge is that should deterrence fail, the execution of a response based on Rapid Dominance must be proportional to the threat yet decisive enough to convey the appropriate degree of Shock and Awe.
A third goal, should it be achievable, would be to promote a regime of political deterrence that might restrain aggression in the first place.
Second, if achievable, can Rapid Dominance lead to a form of political deterrence in which the capacity to make impotent or "shut down" an adversary can actually control behavior?
Should deterrence fail, the application of Rapid Dominance should create sufficient Shock and Awe to intimidate the enemy forces and leadership as well as provide a clear message for other potential aggressors.
When deterrence or diplomacy failed as in Kuwait, then the use of force was inevitable.
Would this political deterrence prove acceptable to allies and to our own public?
