POL_S 424 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Thomas Schelling, Robert Jervis, Total Annihilation
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Damage limitation the policy of strategic defense, and controlling escalation: emphasis on counterforce targeting and strategic defense limits nuclear threat. Defensive: having a military power that can fend of enemies if attacked. Convinces someone that if they attack you, you will inflict major damage. Deterrence: having a military power that deters others from doing something that one does not want to do through the threat of retaliation on their state. Have to be able to convince your advisory that you have the capabilities to inflict major damage. Compellence: to stop an advisory form doing something or to convince them to do it. Swaggering anything that does not fit in the other 3 uses of force. During the gulf war, we attacked saddam"s army in order to compel them to leave kuwait. Blitzkrieg defeat the opponent by a quick, strategic engagement: force"s outrun the defense, success from paralysis of the enemy, if fails, leads to attrition strategy.
