It is in this context that a dialed back version of Cold War military deterrence comes in handy.
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Coupled with a redefined idea of military deterrence is a completely new and just as important one, economic deterrence.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Peace through strength in a globalized world
Also, as part of any plan to prevent aggressive action by the DPRK, it is necessary to go beyond the capabilities of conventional military deterrence and deploy a missile defense shield.
Indeed, in place of massive destruction, military deterrence in our newly globalized world now focuses on how quickly and effectively a nation can respond to threats, from whichever corner they may arise.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Peace through strength in a globalized world
On the one had, military deterrence continues to be a useful tool for the United States government, though it is now based around the concept of flexibility as opposed to sheer destructive capability.
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Even if U.S. troops on the Golan do not contribute to military deterrence as a tripwire or otherwise might they not be justified as a contribution to deterrence at the political level?
"We will take physical actions aimed at expanding and strengthening our self-defensive military forces, including nuclear deterrence, " it said.
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Pre-1991, economics took a back seat to military concerns when it came to deterrence.
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One such challenge was whether the United States, with a military strategy based on credible nuclear deterrence, could maintain a highly reliable stockpile of nuclear weapons indefinitely without testing.
South Korean officials had asked for such a demonstration of U.S. "extended deterrence" a military term used for nuclear force, defense officials said.
They survived because missile warning is crucial to nuclear deterrence, but plenty of other military systems ended up being killed when an undisciplined requirements process produced designs that were unworkable or unaffordable.
Would U.S. troops on the Golan enhance deterrence of aggression, reducing the likelihood of a Syrian military attack against Israel in the future?
In addition, the U.S. should also seek to sell Taiwan very new but promising military technologies that could give Taiwan some key asymmetrical advantages that would strengthen deterrence in the next two years.
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But when public depictions are skewed toward lethal actions and fail to account for nuanced forms of power and deterrence, we undermine public discourse on how best to leverage military force for our national security.
U.S. military planners spent the next 50 years revising and refining the requirements of deterrence, spelling out in great detail the performance characteristics required of U.S. nuclear forces to assure they were both survivable and credible.
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After nearly a decade of declining activity, the Russian military began to exercise its forces in mission areas it believed were essential for deterrence, global reach and rapid reaction.
Rather than end, I argue that deterrence has merely shifted into another realm, comprising not only the familiar military aspects articulated to a certain extent in the doctrines of the Cold War, but also new aspects brought out by globalization, broadly termed economic deterrence.
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In a statement, the US military said that the B-2 planes demonstrated America's ability to "provide extended deterrence" to its allies and conduct "long-range, precision strikes quickly and at will".
In an earlier statement, the US military said that the B-2 stealth bombers demonstrated America's ability to "provide extended deterrence" to its allies and conduct "long-range, precision strikes quickly and at will".
Unfortunately, the costs of deferring U.S. attention including, where necessary, military attention to these challenges will vastly exceed those entailed were they to be dealt with now through credible deterrence and forceful action.
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