Strategic, Tactical and Doctrinal Military Concepts. The Deterrence Concept: A Synthesis Based on a Survey of the Literature.

摘要

Includes an evaluative, integrative survey of the literature on deterrence, 1946-1979; a presentation of the essential components of deterrence; a contrast of counterforce strategies with finite deterrence, and of the cyclic alternation of these approaches in U.S. theory and policy; and an examination and assessment of recent criticisms of deterrence.