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A Vocabulary of Escalation: A Primer on the Escalation Literature for Military Planners
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Radin, Andrew
- Language:
- English
- Other Title:
- Vocabulary of Escalation
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2024
- Summary:
- Escalation is an important consideration in U.S. military activities, but U.S. Army and joint planning doctrine and manuals do not provide focused guidance on how to account for escalation risks across the competition-conflict spectrum. The academic literature on escalation does offer useful frameworks, and many of the concepts are applicable to concrete military problems at the tactical and operational levels. This report contains insights from four prominent academic schools of thought on the actions, attributes, and dilemmas that characterize escalation and deescalation processes and provides military planners and staff officers a vocabulary to describe the benefits, costs, and risks of potential military options.
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