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The Great American Gamble: Deterrence Theory and Practice from the Cold War to the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover
The Great American Gamble examines the past, present, and prospective future of U.S. deterrence theory, strategic forces, nuclear weapons and policy. It provides a detailed explanation of the competing schools of deterrence theory that emerged during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Based on an extensive review of previously classified documents, it demonstrates how and why U.S. Government policies came to adhere to the guidelines established by the theory of deterrence popularly called the 'balance of terror.' Dr. Payne presents the assumptions, judgments, and hopes that led U.S. policy makers in consecutive Republican and Democratic administrations to that choice.
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Dr. Keith B. Payne is president of the National Institute for Public Policy and heads the Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University (Washington, D.C. area campus). He is the author or co-author of approximately 100 articles published in leading U.S. and foreign journals and newspapers, and 17 previous books and monographs, including Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age (1996) and The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence (2001).
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- PublisherNational Institute Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0977622169
- ISBN 13 9780977622160
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages471
- EditorNational Institute Press
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