The New Calculus of Escalation : Avoiding Armageddon in Great Power Conflict / Martin C. Libicki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Libicki, Martin C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Escalation (Military science).

Conflict management.

War.

Nuclear threshold (Strategy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Martin Libicki updates our understanding of conflict escalation dynamics for the twenty-first century in order to reduce the possibility of major war. The return of great power competition has renewed concerns about managing escalation, lest a minor crisis inadvertently spiral into nuclear war. During the Cold War, there were two critical thresholds, the threshold between peace and war and the threshold between conventional war and nuclear war. But ongoing developments in cyber and other advanced military technologies threaten command and control and blur the old thresholds. Previous strategists spoke of escalation ladders, but today's mixing of conventional, nuclear, and cyber weapons makes escalation more like a complex lattice of crisscrossing domains. This book seeks to improve mutual understanding among states by reconceptualizing conflict thresholds and exit ramps the manage escalation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Escalation and its Motivations

Is Cyberwar War?

The Space Between Nonlethal and Lethal War

Is There a Feasible Local-Global Threshold?

Conventional Operations against Nuclear Systems

The Putative Tactical-Strategic Nuclear Threshold

Will Thresholds Emerge on their Own?

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781647125776

1647125774