The Use of Force

Strategies for the use of force: the fungibility of force, Robert J. Art; the sources of military doctrine, Barry M. Posen; offense, defense, and the causes of war, Stephen Van Evera; international terrorism - a new mode of conflict, Brian M. Jenkins; the unimpressive record of atomic diplomacy, McGeorge Bundy; the utility of nuclear deterrence, Robert Jervis; nuclear myths and political realities, Kenneth N. Waltz. Case studies in the great power use of force: the cult of the offensive in 1914, Jack Snyder; Hitler and the Blitzkrieg Strategy, John J. Mearsheimer; Japan's fatal blunder, George Sansom; the decision to use the atomic bomb, Louis Morton; the Korean War, Morton H. Halperin; the essence of revision - the Cuban Missile Crisis, David Welch, James G. Blight and Bruce J. Allyn; implementing flexible response - Vietnam as a test case, John Lewis Gaddis; nuclear weapons and the 1973 Middle East crisis, Barry M. Blechman and Douglas M. Hart; how Kuwait was won - strategy in the Gulf War, Lawrence Freedman and Effraim Karsh; Bosnia - triumph of the lack of will, James Gow. Military issues in the current era: from preponderance to offshore balancing, Christopher Layne; courting disaster - an expanded NATO versus Russia and China, Bruce Russett and Allan C. Stam; the strategy of selective engagement, Robert J. Art; what is the threat? Steve Fetter; peace, stability and nuclear weapons, Kenneth N. Waltz; why nuclear spread is dangerous, Scott D. Sagan; intervention in ethnic and ideological civil wars, Chaim Kaufmann; military responses to refugee disasters, Barry M. Posen; the obsolescence of major war, John Mueller; paths to peace - is democracy the answer? Miriam Fendius Elman; the utility of force in a world of scarcity, John Orme.