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Dr. Stephen J. Cimbala
In today’s information age, the coexistence of nuclear weapons with advanced conventional weapons and information-based concepts of warfare is a military contradiction. This is a study of how the information…
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A study of how the information age in modern warfare coexists with the persistent appeal of nuclear weapons and its impact on crisis management. It focuses on this unplanned coexistence…
Stephen J. Cimbala
The first book to analyze strategic war termination from a policy perspective, Strategic War Termination explores present US policy on termination and recommends strategies for improving it.
In this comprehensive study, eminent scholars address all aspects of U.S. deterrence policy from both technical and policy aspects.
In Part II, three chapters discuss the U.S. response to the Soviet threat in terms of U.S. strategy for war in Europe, strategic defense policies, and technology and policy choices.
This is an excellent advanced study in strategy in the nuclear age… … Cimbala examines a number of issues from this point of departure, including: arms control, de-escalation and escalation…
If a nuclear war between American and Soviet forces or the forces of their allies were to start, how would it end? This soberting analysis, one of the few published…
An important contribution to the international relations and military studies literature, this study considers the problem of conflict termination in Europe–an area of immense strategic importance to both the United…
The profound political changes in the USSR and Eastern Europe during 1989 have forced the United States and its Western European allies to reevaluate both their long held military strategy…
This study is an initial effort to assess the post-Cold War international environment in terms of its implications for the relationship between force and policy.
Contrasts the Cold War and post-Cold War environments for the pursuit of military advantage through nuclear deterrence and warns against complacent acceptance of nuclear weapons spread.
This edited collection considers the future of nuclear weapons in world politics in terms of security issues that are important for the US and other policy makers. The spread of…
The future of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy in the 21st century is not entirely predictable from the Cold War past.
Although many U.S. military planners and policy makers appear to place their faith in technology as the sine qua non of success in security and defense policy, technology can be…
This work aims to show why the prevention, management and conclusion of war require an understanding of the subjective aspects of decision making, as well as of the hardware and…
This work argues that nuclear complacency is based on a misreading of history and on unsound political and military analysis. It states that the Soviet-American nonbelligerence of the Cold War…
Cimbala analyzes military persuasion-the art of using armed force to support diplomacy, deterrence, crisis management, unconventional conflicts, peace operations, and other military activities short of major conventional war.
First published in 1999, this edited volume draws together contributors to discuss the end, management, technology and strategy of the Cold War with a focus on the USA and the…
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The final part, Beyond Deterrence, considers war termination scenarios and related issues, including sociopolitical aspects, surveys the part nuclear weapons play in superpower competition in the Third World, and explains…
Explores a problem of military uncertainty - first strike stability. It seeks to clarify the kind of bargains superpowers and their allies have made in regard to nuclear weapons and…
The dramatic events of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan make an obvious case for expert study of the George W Bush defense program. This book examines Bush’s…
In Russia and Armed Persuasion, Stephen J. Cimbala argues that Russia’s war planners and political leaders must make painful adjustments in their thinking about the relationship between military art and…
In the twenty-first century, the United States confronts an international system of great complexity and shifting security challenges. Among these challenges are those posed by nuclear weapons. This book deals…
Stephen J Cimbala
This book provides a more inclusive framework for assessing the possible development and deployment of a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system by the United States or the Soviet Union.
Coercion is persuasion supported by the threat or use of force. Just as warfare is often diplomacy carried out by other means, coercion–the threat of combat or the threat of…
This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.
This book focuses on the evolution of nuclear weapons as components of US military strategy and arms control by contrasting their roles in the early and later information ages.
Examines a range of issues, including: the contrast between theory and practice in civil-military relations; the role perceptions of military professionals across generations; the character of civil-military relations in authoritarian…
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This is the most comprehensive view of nuclear weapons policy and strategy currently available. The author’s division of the nuclear issue into the three ages is a never seen before…
At the end of the Cold War security concerns are more about regional and civil conflicts than nuclear or Eurasian global wars. Stephen Cimbala argues that deterrence characteristics of the…
This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia’s armed forces in the present and immediate future.
This book examines a wide variety of topics, ranging from Soviet and U.S. views on conflict termination to past, present, and future U.S. military service contributions. It demonstrates the importance…
This book analyzes the United States and Russia’s nuclear arms control and deterrence relationships and how these countries must lead current and prospective efforts to support future nuclear arms control…
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Nuclear weapons combined with ballistic missiles dominated the military-technical competition of the Cold War. This work examines the background and current status of American efforts to create missile defences.
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