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© Getty Anytime a Secretary of Defense returns from Hawaii, one braces for tough talk and the “coming war with China.” Thankfully, Lloyd Austin Deterrence is as old as the first arms race, and “integrated deterrence” is not much younger. It simply means using all instruments of national power (e.g., diplomacy, economic instruments) and not just the ones that shoot bullets. It also includes building defensive alliances to intimidate our enemies. It’s torn from the pages of President E...

Beijing appears to have given up its incremental strategy in favor of more sizable power grabs.

Professor of psychology Ellen Langer once received an invitation to deliver a sermon. Although she is “not particularly religious,” she agreed to offer a reflection at the service, choosing a topic at the intersection of religion and psychology: forgiveness. As she prepared her remarks, Langer began thinking about the human tendency to assume that one way is better than another. For instance, forgiveness is universally seen as positive, and blame as negative. “However, when you look more ...

View: How counterinsurgency operations can succeed in Chhattisgarh SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 06, 2021, 03:12 PM IST Share Synopsis The doyen of deterrence theory, Thomas Schelling had written in 1966 that “brute force of adversaries cancels each other but pain and grief do not.” Herein lies the crux of what hurts someone and has a positive follow-on effect, and what does not. A file image of anti-naxal ops beginning in Maharashtra Related The terrible loss of 22 Central Armed Police Forces...

Trying to talk about the dollar value of a human life really sounds like cold hard economics. Knowing how the calculations are done is chilling. But human life does have a value. Bizarrely, trying to work that out began with trying to work out the "value of death".

Killing the ABM Treaty: A Retrospective Quote of the week: “Most of what we call civilization depends on reciprocal vulnerability.” — Thomas Schelling Note to readers: Here’s a taste of my forthcoming book, ‘Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control.’ George W. Bush is an admirable human being in many ways. He is deeply centered, a man of honor, faith, and constancy. As President, he tried to do his best in extremely trying circumstances, b...

 E-Mail New research from the University of Kent reveals social cohesion with immigration is best ensured through childhood exposure to diversity in local neighbourhoods, leading to acceptance of other groups. The research, which is published in Oxford Economic Papers, builds on the Nobel Laureate economist Thomas Schellings Model of Segregation, which showed that a slight preference by individuals and families towards their own groups can eventually result in complete segregation of communi...

Celebrate Womens History Month with the best movies directed by women from the past 20 years: The films that entertained, transported us, and broke new ground.

"The understanding of what deterrence is has been misinterpreted, reinterpreted, run through a ringer, chopped up and turned into a hamburger. I mean, its just that nobody there [at DoD] seems to understand what it means exactly," one former government official said. By   Theresa Hitchens on February 02, 2021 at 3:33 PM

The US must invest and prepare for the threat of what is yet to come Scott Cooper January 22 Aircraft assigned to the 354th Fighter Wing and 168th Wing park in formation on Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, on Dec. 18, 2020. (Senior Airman Keith Holcomb/U.S. Air Force) Correction: A previous version of this commentary miscalculated the number of operational F-35C squadrons with the U.S. Navy. The service has one. On Jan. 1, Congress overrode then-President Donald Trump’s veto of the fi...