The Use of Force

Part 1 Strategies for the use of force: the fungibility of force, Robert J. Art; the sources of military doctrine, Barry R. Posen; offense, defense and the causes of war, Stephen Van Evera; coercive diplomacy, Alexander L. George; international terrorism, Brian M. Jenkins; the unimpressive record of atomic diplomacy, Mcgeorge Bundy; the utility of nuclear deterrence, Robert Jervis; nuclear myths & political realities, Kenneth N. Waltz. Part 2 Case studies in the use of force: the cult of the offensive in 1914, Jack Snyder; Hitler and the Blitzkrieg strategy, John J. Mearsheimer; Japan's fatal bluner, Sir George Sansom; the decision to use the atomic bomb, Louis Morton; the Korean war, Morton H. Halperin; the Cuban missile crisis, David A. Welsh et al; implementing flexible response - Vietnam as a test case, John Lewis gaddis; coercive diplomacy in the Balkans, Steven L. Burg; the Afghani war - a flawed masterpiece, Michael E. O'Hanlon. Part 3 Current military issues: from preponderance to offshore balancing, Christopher Layne; the strategy of selective engagement, Robert J. Art; America's imperial ambition, G. John Ikenberry; missile defenses and the multiplication of nuclear weapons, Kenneth N. Waltz; what if Iraq had nuclear weapons?, Barry R. Posen; nuclear instability in South Asia, Scott D. Sagan; nuclear stability in South Asia, Kenneth N. Waltz; intervention in ethnic and ideological civil wars, Chaim Kaufmann; military responses to refugee disasters, Barry R. Posen; the critical barrier to civil war settlement, Barbara F. Walter; the changing face of terror, Walter Laqueur; lessons from fighting terrorism in Southern Asia, Brahma Chellaney; the role of declaratory policy and law, Richard A. Falkenrath et al; dealing with terrorists, Paul R. Pillar.