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Author : Jonathan Shimshoni
Release : 1988
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Israel and Conventional Deterrence by : Jonathan Shimshoni
Download or read book Israel and Conventional Deterrence written by Jonathan Shimshoni. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Israel and Conventional Deterrence by : Jonathan Shimshoni
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Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Release : 1985-08-21
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Conventional Deterrence by : John J. Mearsheimer
Download or read book Conventional Deterrence written by John J. Mearsheimer. This book was released on 1985-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. Why do nations faced with the prospect of large-scale conventional war opt for or against an offensive strategy? John J. Mearsheimer examines a number of crises that led to major conventional wars to explain why deterrence failed. He focuses first on Allied and German decision making in the years 1939–1940, analyzing why the Allies did not strike first against Germany after declaring war and, conversely, why the Germans did attack the West. Turning to the Middle East, he examines the differences in Israeli and Egyptian strategic doctrines prior to the start of the major conventional conflicts in that region. Mearsheimer then critically assays the relative strengths and weaknesses of NATO and the Warsaw Pact to determine the prospects for conventional deterrence in any future crisis. He is also concerned with examining such relatively technical issues as the impact of precision-guided munitions (PGM) on conventional deterrence and the debate over maneuver versus attrition warfare.Mearsheimer pays considerable attention to questions of military strategy and tactics. Challenging the claim that conventional detrrence is largely a function of the numerical balance of forces, he also takes issue with the school of thought that ascribes deterrence failures to the dominance of "offensive" weaponry. In addition to examining the military consideration underlying deterrence, he also analyzes the interaction between those military factors and the broader political considerations that move a nation to war.
Author : Elli Lieberman
Release : 1995
Genre : Arab-Israeli conflict
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Book Synopsis Deterrence Theory by : Elli Lieberman
Download or read book Deterrence Theory written by Elli Lieberman. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of cases of deterrence failure in the Middle East -- the 1969 War of Attrition, and the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Israel. Contents: Chap. 1, "Designing Around" I: The "War of Attrition," Success or Failure? (balance of interests; the balance of capability; reputations; and crisis bargaining behavior); Chap. 2, "Designing Around" II: The Yom Kippur War, Success or Failure? (Egypt's goals and strategy; Stein's critique; the balance of capability; and crisis bargaining behavior)
Author : Elli Lieberman
Release : 2013
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Reconceptualizing Deterrence by : Elli Lieberman
Download or read book Reconceptualizing Deterrence written by Elli Lieberman. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a reconceptualisation of conventional deterrence theory, and applies it to enduring rivalries in the Middle East. The work argues that many of the problems encountered in the development of deterrence theory lay in the fact that it was developed during the Cold War, when the immediate problem it had to address was how to prevent catastrophic nuclear wars. The logic of nuclear deterrence compelled a preoccupation with the problem of stability over credibility; however, because the logic of conventional deterrence is different, the solution of the tension between credibility and stability is achieved by deference to credibility, due to the requirements of reputation and costly signaling. This book aims to narrow the gap between theory and evidence. It explores how a reconceptualization of the theory as a process that culminates in the internalization of deterrence within enduring rivalries is better suited to account for its final success: a finding that has eluded deterrence theorists for long. This interdisciplinary book will be of much interest to students of deterrence theory, strategic studies, international security, Middle Eastern studies and IR in general.
