Military Threats

Author : Peter Karsten,Peter Howell,Artis Frances Allen
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008687181

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Military Threats by Peter Karsten,Peter Howell,Artis Frances Allen Pdf

The threat to use military force is a matter that commands immediate attention from many segments of government. Karsten, Howell, and Allen systematically analyze statistically significant numbers of actual cases to discover the determinants of success or failure of the threat to employ military force. After describing their methodology, they address several questions: what are the general characteristics of the typical threat? what types of threats succeed? what threats lead to war? did threats in the prenuclear past differ in outcome from those in the nuclear present? have the United States' threats differed substantially from those of other nations? can anything be said concerning the long-term consequences of the threats? In a concluding chapter the authors summarize their findings, compare them to the conventional wisdom, and then, as a test, apply them to six historical cases. They end their study with a look at the Solidarity and Falklands crises, and a theoretical scenario that suggests the significance of their findings.

Author : Robert Svoboda
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0941375668

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Worldwide Military Threats by Robert Svoboda Pdf

Author : Branislav L. Slantchev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139493055

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Military Threats by Branislav L. Slantchev Pdf

Is military power central in determining which states get their voice heard? Must states run a high risk of war to communicate credible intent? In this book, Slantchev shows that states can often obtain concessions without incurring higher risks when they use military threats. Unlike diplomatic forms of communication, physical military moves improve a state's expected performance in war. If the opponent believes the threat, it will be more likely to back down. Military moves are also inherently costly, so only resolved states are willing to pay these costs. Slantchev argues that powerful states can secure better peaceful outcomes and lower the risk of war, but the likelihood of war depends on the extent to which a state is prepared to use military threats to deter challenges to peace and compel concessions without fighting. The price of peace may therefore be large: states invest in military forces that are both costly and unused.

Author : Robert J. Bunker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136345685

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Non-state Threats and Future Wars by Robert J. Bunker Pdf

The intent behind this book was to bring together a team of defence and national security scholars and real-world military and law enforcement operators to focus on the topic of "Non-State Threats and Future Wars". The book is divided into four main sections: The first concerns theory. The second section concerns non-state threats and case studies, providing an overview of non-state threats ranging from organized crime networks to cartels, gangs and warlords. The third section is based on counter-OPFOR (opposing force) strategies which detail advanced concepts, urban battlespace environmental perceptions, weaponry, intelligence preparation, networked force structure and C41. The fourth and final section contains an archival document from the late 1987 period concerning early Fourth Epoch War theory, and never before published interviews with Chechen commanders and officers who participated in combat operations against Russian forces in the 1994-96 war.

Author : Stephen Blank
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428911819

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Threats to Russian Security by Stephen Blank Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428911833

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Transnational Threats: Blending Law Enforcement and Military Strategies by Anonim Pdf

On February 2-3, 2000, the U.S. Army War College, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, and the Duke University Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security co-sponsored a conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The conference examined transnational threats, including terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction, cyber threats to the national infrastructure, and international organized crime. The goal was to evaluate the seriousness of such threats and discuss strategies for dealing with them. In particular, the conference sought to address the question of how military and law enforcement could blend their strategies to better counter transnational threats. A secondary purpose was to clarify the role of the military in meeting challenges that transcend national borders and threaten our national interests. This book highlights some of the main issues and themes that ran through the conference. After looking at the various threats and undertaking a risk assessment, the report considers the unique aspects of transnational threats, and then identifies the key challenges facing the United States, paying particular attention to the role of the military. The book concludes with discussions of some of the steps that should be taken to secure ourselves against transnational threats.

Author : Daryl G. Press
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0801474159

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Calculating Credibility by Daryl G. Press Pdf

"Daryl G. Press uses historical evidence to answer two crucial questions: When a country backs down in a crisis, does its credibility suffer? How do leaders assess their adversaries' credibility? Press illuminates the decision-making processes behind events such as the crises in Europe that preceded World War II, the superpower showdowns over Berlin in the 1950s and 60s, and the Cuban Missile Crisis."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : David S. McDonough
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442610637

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Canada's National Security in the Post-9/11 World by David S. McDonough Pdf

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, which targeted the heart of financial and military power in the United States, Canada once again proved its credentials as a key American ally. With the imminent end of its combat role in Afghanistan, however, it is time to take stock of how Canada has adapted to the exigencies of the post-9/11 world and to consider the future directions for its foreign, defence, and security policies. This timely exploration and re-assessment of Canada's approach to strategic affairs offers a diverse set of nuanced, sometimes controversial, and always insightful perspectives on the most pressing security challenges that Canada currently faces. Bringing together noted experts on these issues – including a Canadian Senator, a past Minister of National Defence, former high-level military officers, and top scholars - this collection provides powerful ideas and guidance for the difficult task of formulating an overarching national security strategy.

Author : Branislav L. Slantchev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
ISBN : 1139010131

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Military Threats by Branislav L. Slantchev Pdf

This book asks whether military power is central in determining which states get their voice heard, and if so, how and why.

Author : Micah Zenko
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804771900

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Between Threats and War by Micah Zenko Pdf

In Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World, author Micah Zenko presents a new concept to capture and illuminate the phenomenon: "Discrete Military Operations."

Author : Laszlo Valki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349120604

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Changing Threat Perceptions and Military Doctrines by Laszlo Valki Pdf

Owing to the revolutionary changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the threat perceptions of the East and West have vanished. The contributors to this volume report this social process and try to identify some of the new threat perceptions which will arise.

Author : Oren Barak,Gabriel Sheffer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739134841

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Existential Threats and Civil-security Relations by Oren Barak,Gabriel Sheffer Pdf

Existential Threats and Civil Security Relations critically analyzes, presents, and further develops the major approaches to existential threats--structural, cultural, and rational. It examines the influence these threats have on effective democracies, formal democracies, and democratizing states.

Author : Stephen Blank
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X004493043

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Threats to Russian Security by Stephen Blank Pdf

The documented threat assessments addressed here are clearly the culmination to date of a long-standing process by which the Russian military and government have forsaken the optimistic Westernizing postures and visions of the initial post-Soviet years and returned in many respects to assessments and demands for specific policies that evoke the Soviet mentality and period. The armed forces and the government have adopted a viewpoint that magnifies both the internal and external threats to Russia that they perceive and regard those threats as growing in number and saliency. This viewpoint is fundamentally at odds with both the post-1985 Soviet and Russian perspective and with Western perspectives on international security. The future course of Russian security policy is one of the most important and difficult questions in contemporary international affairs. This monograph addresses basic issues pertaining to Russia s future options for policymakers' consideration and reflection as the global debate over Russia s future direction under Vladimir Putin takes shape.

Author : John H. Maurer,Richard H. Porth
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081624392

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Military Intervention in the Third World by John H. Maurer,Richard H. Porth Pdf

En række afhandlinger om de teoretiske og praktiske aspekter af Sovjetunionens og USA's militære indblanding i den 3. Verdens lande. Årsagerne til og baggrunden for en evt. indblanding undersøges, ligesom der anvises metoder til at løse problemerne på. Afhandlingerne er skrevet af Alvin Z. Rubinstein, Gordon H. McCormick, Dov. S. Zakheim, W. Scott Thompson, Andrew B. Walworth, Terry L. Deibel, Norman Friedman, Kevin N. Lewis, William J. Taylor Jr., og Michael E. Vlahos.

Author : Richard C. Shelby
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780756709051

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Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United States by Richard C. Shelby Pdf

Hearing on those conditions throughout the world that have fostered, or will foster, threats and challenges to the security of the U.S. Witnesses include: Senator Richard H. Bryan, State of Nevada; J. Stapleton Roy, Assistant Secretary of State of Intelligence and Research; Senator Richard C. Shelby, State of Alabama; George J. Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence (CIA); and Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency.