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Strategic impasse offense, defense and deterence theory and practice

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OSTI ID:6025784

The book is divided into three parts: the first section, scrutinizes the relationship between offense and defense and examines SDI and more inclusive strategic defense matters. It also questions the connection between policy objectives and force, and explores the complication of externalities, such as relations with allies. In section two, Cimbala reviews the operational art likely to be employed by the Soviets in a conventionally fought European war and defines and appraised the sensor-cyber revolution in technology and its impacts on preferred strategies. The final part, considers was termination scenarios and related issues, including superpower competition in the Third World, and explains how issues of sovereignty effect deterrence, avoidance, and future super power relations.

OSTI ID:
6025784
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English