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Potential to dramatically alter the situation. not clear what we would do in response to that. we haven't signaled any clear path of retaliation, which i think is a mistake. one of the mistakes we've consistently made is failing to make clear to putin the scale of the down side to is escalation. we use sanctions as a deterrent. it didn't work. we're not now saying anything about what would happen if he resorts to a nuclear weapon and gives him the impression that we wouldn't do much except more sanctions. that's where deterrence theory not to go. you have to deter him from doing that and right...

Facing double the number of peer threats that existed in 2010, the U.S. will need to adjust its nuclear forces in kind.

If American deterrence fails, it may not be because the United States’s adversaries doubt U.S. military capabilities, so much as they doubt American willpower.

Robert Powell, political science professor whose research primarily focused on conflict and politics in weakly institutionalized states, died Dec. 13. 

Credible deterrence requires kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities, political will, and clear communication of a specified threat of force.