Great American Gamble Deterrence Theory and Practice from the Cold War to the Twenty-First Century

Name: Great American Gamble Deterrence Theory and Practice from the Cold War to the Twenty-First Century
Price: 18.64 USD
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ISBN: 9780977622177

ISBN-10: 0977622177

ISBN-13: 9780977622177

Edition: 2008

Authors: Keith B. Payne

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The Great American Gamble: Deterrence Theory and Practice from the Cold War to the Twenty-First Century presents an analysis of U.S. strategic deterrence theory and policy from the mid-1960s through to the present. It examines the development of the two major academic schools of nuclear deterrence theory as articulated by Thomas Schelling and Herman Kahn in the 1950s and 1960s. It then identifies the direct linkage between these theories and the development of actual U.S. government policy from the early-1960s to the twenty-first century. The evidence for this linkage between theory and policy comes from the authors analysis of for numerous, previously-Top Secret Department of Defense…