Accession Number:

ADA043263

Title:

Deterrence Failures and Deterrence Strategies,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Brown,Michael E.

Report Date:

1977-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

28.0

Abstract:

The alternative perspective developed in this essay contends that a nations long-term political, economic, and social prospects dominate narrow military considerations in a decision on whether or not to go to war. If long-term prospects seem bright to a nations NCANational Command Authority, it will find the current state of affairs on the whole acceptable. In this case a nation might not go to war even when presented with certain military success. On the other hand, if long-term prospects seem dim to a nations NCA, it will find the current state of affairs intolerable, in that existing trends define those long-term developments. In this case a nation might go to war in the face of likely military defeat.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY STRATEGY
• *DETERRENCE
• ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
• POLICIES
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
• MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN)
• FAILURE
• COLD WAR
• HISTORY
• LOGIC
• WAR POTENTIAL

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE