Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence

by National Research Council, and Applications Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Deterrence as a strategic concept evolved during the Cold War. During that period, deterrence strategy was aimed mainly at preventing aggression against the United States and its close allies by the hostile Communist power centers--the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its allies, Communist China and North Korea. In particular, the strategy was devised to prevent aggression involving nuclear attack by the USSR or China. Since the end...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030905639X
• ISBN13: 9780309056397
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 244 Pages