INR 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: United States Cyber Command, New York Post, Security Dilemma
23 Oct 2013
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Coercion: the use of a threat to change another actor"s behavior. Every threat is an offer to negotiate. Credibility: the ability and will to carry out a threat. States with larger military capabilities are likely to be in a better bargaining position. Will is hard to gauge: defense versus deterrence. Two ways in which the potential use of force is leveraged to prevent another country from attacking: defense and deterrence. States shift their reliance on defense versus deterrence depending on the technology and tactics available to them and their perceived power relative to states they see as potential adversaries. The simplest way to provide security is to be able to repel an attack. An alternative to defense is deterrence: a policy aimed at convincing a potential opponent not to attack by raising the costs of attack so that they are higher than the perceived benefits. Defense and deterrence strategies have often overlapped in history: the security dilemma.
