I remembered this document because it includes a passage on the succesful KGB/GRU intel operation in Lebanon, which was one of the starting points of my previous thread on anti-terrorist strategies, a ...

Michael Koplow makes the important point, whoever wins in Gaza, it is clear who has lost: the theory that Iran can be deterred. [T]he rockets from Gaza underscore the threat of missile attacks on ...

In the wake of the anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings and the release of the movie "Oppenheimer," it's a good time to talk about ending the threat of these dreadful weapons. I ...

War with North Korea became more likely with the recent appointments of hawks John Bolton and Mike Pompeo as national security advisor and secretary of state. While the White House has confirmed that ...

President Bush's new concept of deterrence in the post-Cold War world, which embraces the U.S. deploying offensive and defensive forces, stands in sharp contrast to deterrence strategy outlined in a ...

A military attack on Iraq would be a profound and costly mistake, declare 33 scholars of international relations in a statement that is to appear as an advertisement in The New York Times. The ...

The nuclear weapons debate in the United States can be deconstructed a variety of ways, characterized by competing schools of thought: What goals should (and should not) be served by the possession of ...

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, thinks that Iran is a “rational actor.” He is indisputably correct. Iran has, quite rationally, concluded that if it spins thousands of ...

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump recently handed North Korean potentate Kim Jong-un a dollop of praise for the “amazing” way he murders rivals. This utterance followed similar plaudits for Russian ...

The legal and administrative apparatus responsible for the social control of organizations relies extensively on the deterrent effects of punishment. This strategy presumes a rational choice model of ...