In the case of deterrence and prevention, however, I would suggest that the mess runs deep, and the theory is not tidy at all. When people talk about deterrence, they usually assume that the ...

Preventive war seeks to eliminate a potential danger before it materializes. That distinction is the line separating order from opportunism. Several respected international law scholars have argued ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President George W. Bush’s vision was that by imposing democracy on Iraq, "freedom" would spread throughout the greater Middle ...

Editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine Fyodor Lukyanov remarked that Putin’s address's devoted mostly to the economy, social sphere, while some foreign policy aspects were less important ...

MINSK, April 25. /TASS/. Belarus considers it legitimate to use preventive measures to deter aggression, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said during a discussion of the country’s military ...

Rios is a human rights advocate with the American Friends Service Committee and directs its U.S./Mexico Border Program. He lives in Chula Vista. During the last weekend of August, a team with Water ...

After 1945, one of the principal reasons why America lost every war it started was because of profoundly flawed strategic thinking. The tragedy is that this flaw still persists. In Vietnam, the ...

The United States needs a replacement concept for deterrence, the theory that was a child of the Cold War. It no longer is fit for purpose. Why? A war in which there were only losers and no winners ...