Concerns about crime have been the foundation for decades of get-tough policies aimed at deterring crime. The belief is that ever-greater punishment — by hiring more police, increasing prosecution, ...

Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Carter Malkasian’s recent article on “America’s crisis of deterrence.” They debate whether recent policy failures are a breakdown of deterrence theory or U.S. policy, ...

Trump's New Doctrine of Precision Deterrence On January 3rd, 2020, President Donald Trump eliminated Iran's Qassam Soleimani.

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 ...

Of course, the contrast between messy reality and tidy theory is no refutation of a theory; it may simply represent a failure to apply the theory as systematically as it might have been. In the case ...

Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-41 ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, Oct. 1, 2019. The case for U.S.

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 ...

The successful salvo launch of India's Pralay missile marks a pivotal shift in its conventional deterrence, moving from a ...