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Arms and Influence
by Schelling, Thomas C.
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- Comments: Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as the science of victory. Today, however, in our world of nuclear weapons, military power is not so much exercised as threatened. It is, Mr. Schelling says, bargaining power, and the exploitation of this power, for good or evil, to preserve peace or to threaten war, is diplomacy-the diplomacy of violence. The author concentrates in this book on the way in which military capabilities-real...
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- ISBN-13: 9780300002218
- ISBN: 0300002211
- Publication Date: 1967
- Publisher: Yale University Press
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The author concentrates in this book n the way in which military capabilities real or imagined are used, skillfully of clumsily, as bargaining power. He sees the steps taken by the U.S. during the Berlin and Cuban crises as not merely preparations for engagement, but as signals to and enemy, with reports from the adversary's own military intelligence as our most important diplomatic communications.Schelling, Thomas C. is the author of 'Arms and Influence', published 1967 under ISBN 9780300002218 and ISBN 0300002211.
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