This book examines how the United States uses limited military force and other means to influence adversaries and potential adversaries. It reviews when limited force can and cannot work and examines a range of current challenges, including those of guerrilla groups or minor powers armed with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. It also looks at the complications arising from domestic politics and the difficulties of using force in an alliance.
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"This timely RAND Corporation study focuses on threats of military action and on the coercive functions of military operations in war. . . . All in all, The Dynamics of Coercion should be must-reading for all practitioners and scholars of the art, especially those who, encouraged by the administration's optimism for controllable war, are unworried by the new enthusiasm for coercive diplomacy." Political Science Quarterly
"This important work offers a fresh look at the potential strengths and weaknesses of coercion in American foreign policy in the 21st century. Highly recommended." Choice
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This book examines how the United States does, and should, use limited military force and other means of influencing adversaries and potential adversaries. It reviews when limited force can, and cannot, work. It examines a range of current challenges, including those of guerrilla groups, minor powers (e.g. Iraq) armed with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. It also looks at the complications arising from domestic politics and the difficulties of using force in an alliance.
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Daniel Byman is Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He has served on the 9/11 Commission staff and as an analyst with the U.S. government.
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Coercion-the use of threatened force, and at times the limited use of actual force to back up the threat, to induce an adversary to change its behavior-should be easy for the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coercive strategy making, predecisional agreements, coercive contests, adversary countermoves, adversary decision making, nonstate adversaries, casualty sensitivity, various coalition members, adversary leadership, coercing power, successful coercion, escalation dominance, coercion today, coercive operations, adversary regime, coalition unity, weakening mechanism, coercive threats, regional adversaries, immediate deterrence, adversary efforts, coercive strategies, fielded forces, coercive instruments, civilian suffering Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cold War, New York, Saddam Husayn, North Korea, Soviet Union, World War, Santa Monica, Security Studies, Operation Allied Force, World Politics, Desert Storm, North Vietnamese, Bosnian Serb, Foreign Affairs, Security Council, Korean War, Westview Press, Washington Post, Middle East, Operation Deliberate Force, Operation Restore Hope, War of Attrition, Alexander George, David Baldwin New!
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Coercion-the use of threatened force, and at times the limited use of actual force to back up the threat, to induce an adversary to change its behavior-should be easy for the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coercive strategy making, predecisional agreements, coercive contests, adversary countermoves, adversary decision making, nonstate adversaries, casualty sensitivity, various coalition members, adversary leadership, coercing power, successful coercion, escalation dominance, coercion today, coercive operations, adversary regime, coalition unity, weakening mechanism, coercive threats, regional adversaries, immediate deterrence, adversary efforts, coercive strategies, fielded forces, coercive instruments, civilian suffering Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cold War, New York, Saddam Husayn, North Korea, Soviet Union, World War, Santa Monica, Security Studies, Operation Allied Force, World Politics, Desert Storm, North Vietnamese, Bosnian Serb, Foreign Affairs, Security Council, Korean War, Westview Press, Washington Post, Middle East, Operation Deliberate Force, Operation Restore Hope, War of Attrition, Alexander George, David Baldwin New!
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- The Limits Of Coercive Diplomacy: Second Edition by Alexander L George on 7 pages
- Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series) by Thomas C. Schelling on 6 pages
- To End a War (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Richard Holbrooke on 5 pages
- Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War (American Politics and Political Economy Series) by John Mueller on 5 pages
- Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy on 5 pages
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- Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel: In the Shadow of the Hawk (Israeli History, Politics and Society) by Abraham Ben-Zvi on page 21, and Back Matter
- Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century by Rod Thornton in Back Matter
- Strategic Appraisal : United States Air and Space Power in the 21st Century by Zalmay Khalilzad on page 78
- Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century by Rod Thornton in Back Matter
- Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century by Michael E. Brown on page 228
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