Through a Glass Darkly : Looking at Conflict Prevention, Management, and Termination.

Cover -- THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Past Cases -- Present/Future Cases -- SEQUENCE OF TOPICS -- LOOKING AHEAD -- NOTES -- Part I Past Cases -- Chapter 1 Bargaining at the Brink: Otherness and the Cuban Missile Crisis -- INTRODUCTION -- PERSPECTIVE TAKING BEFORE AND AFTER CUBA -- DETERRENCE AND THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS -- OTHER INTERPRETATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 2 Wilderness of Mirrors: The 1983 "War Scare" and U.S.-Soviet Relations -- INTRODUCTION -- OPERATION RYAN -- THE INF DECISION -- STAR WARS -- KAL 007 -- THE SEPTEMBER SATELLITE WARNING INCIDENT -- ABLE ARCHER -- EAST GERMAN INTELLIGENCE -- THE SOVIET NUCLEAR DETERRENT -- ANALYSIS -- OTHER WAR SCARES? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 3 Operation Desert Storm: A Truncated Triumph -- INTRODUCTION -- MISPERCEPTIONS AND MISTAKEN ASSUMPTIONS -- Was Saddam Hussein Irrational or Crazy Like a Fox? -- U.S. Deterrence before Desert Storm -- Compellence: Upping the Ante -- THE BEST-LAID PLANS: ASSUMPTIONS -- THE AIR CAMPAIGN: OBJECTIVES AND ASSESSMENT -- VIDEO WAR -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Part II Present and Future Cases -- Chapter 4 Information Warfare and Nuclear Weapons: Back to the Future? -- INFORMATION WARFARE: WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT MATTERS -- INFORMATION WARFARE AND NUCLEAR CRISIS MANAGEMENT -- PREEMPTION AND INFORMATION WARFARE -- ACCIDENTAL/INADVERTENT WARFARE AND INFORMATION CONFLICT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 5 Armageddon by Osmosis: Must Nuclear Weapons Spread? -- INTRODUCTION -- NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND DETERRENCE IN THE COLD WAR -- A NEW THREAT ENVIRONMENT -- PROLIFERATION AND RATIONAL DECISION MAKING -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 6 Small Wars and Peace Wars: Disarming the Devil -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING THE PROBLEM -- ORGANIZING THE U.S. MILITARY FOR NONWAR OPERATIONS -- THE STREETS WITHOUT JOY.

Chechnya I: Russia Enters the Quagmire -- Chechnya II: Russia Reenters the Quagmire -- ALLIES IN SMALL WARS AND PEACE WARS -- Command and Control -- NATO: Out of Area and into OOTW -- CASUALTIES AND POPULAR EXPECTATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Conclusion -- THE FRAMEWORK OF THE STUDY REVISITED -- WHAT PAST CASES TELL US -- ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS ABOUT DECISION-MAKING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE -- RESOLVING FUTURE CONFLICTS -- GRACE NOTES -- NOTES -- For Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author.

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