People often hear officials say they are trying to “restore deterrence” after a strike, then watch the conflict get worse anyway. That is because deterrence and escalation are not opposites in a ...

Since the 1990s, every four years (give or take) the Department of Defense (DOD) issues its major strategic planning document, the National Defense Strategy (NDS). And every four years, the strategic ...

Michele Norris talks to David Hoffman, contributing editor to Foreign Policy magazine, about deterrence, nuclear posture, and what deterrence will mean moving forward. We're now going to focus on a ...

FOX News host Greg Gutfeld wondered Thursday if the U.S. still believes in the doctrine of extended deterrence. If Russian President Vladimir Putin has broken the traditional Mutually Assured ...

All of these threats are, to one degree or another, ripostes to our inadequate thinking about escalation and deterrence. However, these efforts to avoid escalation have been resounding failures. The ...

In the days of radio, when a batter crushed a basebal that was headed for a home run, the famous sports announcer Mel Allen described the ball’s trajectory as “going, going, gone.” The same descriptor ...