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Military policy --- Escalation (Military science)

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police --- de-escalation --- psychophysiology --- decision making --- stress

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Polemology --- War --- Military history, Modern --- Escalation (Military science) --- Military history, Modern. --- War. --- Escalation (Military science).

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The author demonstrates here how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation. Knowledge of these hidden pressures, he believes, may help some future decision maker avoid catastrophes. Building a formidable argument that moves with cumulative force, he details the way in which escalation could occur not by mindless accident, or by deliberate preference for nuclear escalation, but rather as a natural accompaniment of land, naval, or air warfare at the conventional level. The author bases his analysis on an empirical study of the east-west military competition in Europe during the 1980s, using a conceptual framework drawn from international relations theory, organization theory, and strategic theory.

NUCLEAR THRESHOLD (STRATEGY) --- ESCALATION (MILITARY SCIENCE) --- LIMITED WAR

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ESCALATION (MILITARY SCIENCE) --- CONFLICT MANAGEMENT --- SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL --- MILITARY HISTORY, MODERN--20TH CENTURY --- WORLD POLITICS