The Mechanism for Strategic Coercion : Denial or Second Order Change?

By Major Mark P. Sullivan, USAF

Book Id: WPLBN0002170863
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Reproduction Date: 10/24/2012

Title:	The Mechanism for Strategic Coercion : Denial or Second Order Change?
Author:	Major Mark P. Sullivan, USAF
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, History of America, Military Theory
Collections:	Authors Community, Philosophy
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Publisher:	Air University Press

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Description
The traditional American military brute-force strategy does not always meet our national needs in this new world order. Strategic Coercion offers one alternative to this brute-force approach. Simply stated, strategic coercion is the act of inducing or compelling an adversary to do something to which he is averse. It involves using force and threatening action to compel an adversary to cease his current activity, or coerce him to reverse actions already taken. Two contemporary theories of strategic coercion seem to offer promising alternatives to brute force.