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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 Eisenhower’s “New Look Policy” in 1953. What’s new remains unclear. Austin wants to invest in...

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 closely at it, you can’t forgive unless you first blame,” she explains. “Everyone says blame i...

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 (CAPF) jawans in Chhattisgarh is a grim reminder of the grey zone warfare ongoing since decades. In...

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".