The fallacies of Cold War deterrence and a new direction / Keith B. Payne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Payne, Keith B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deterrence (Strategy).

Nuclear weapons--United States.

Nuclear weapons.

Cold War.

Deterrence (Strategy)--History--20th century.

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped that a policy of appeasement would satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial appetite and structured British policy accordingly. This plan was a failure, chiefly because Hitler was not a statesman who would ultimately conform to familiar norms. Chamberlain's policy was doomed because he had greatly misjudged Hitler's basic beliefs and thus his behavior. U.S. Cold War nuclear deterrence policy was similarly based on the confident but questionable assumption that Soviet leaders would be rational by Washington's standards; they would behave reasonably wh

Contents:

Cold War deterrence theory and practice

Why the Cold War deterrence framework is inadequate

Cold War deterrence thought in the post-Cold War world

The dilemma of popular usage and a new direction

Testing the deterrence framework

The new deterrence framework, evidence, and misplaced confidence

Lessons of this case study.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-9015-0

0-8131-2775-0

0-8131-4849-9

OCLC:

900344332