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RELATIONS
Joshua S. Goldstein
Jon C. Pevehouse
20132014 Update
Tenth Edition
Chapter Six:
Military Force
and Terrorism
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Conflict: You are the President of the United
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Air Forces
Air war, using precision-guided bombs
against battlefield targets, proved
extremely effective in the U.S. campaigns
in Iraq in 1991, Serbia in 1999,
Afghanistan in 2001, and Iraq in 2003.
PROJECTING POWER
President of the
United States,
Barack Obama
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
Answer:
True-False:
Answer:
True
6.2 Terrorism
Political violence
Purpose
Primary effect is psychological
Classic cases, 1970s-2001
Persistence is puzzling
More willing than states are to violate the norms of
the international system
State-sponsored terrorism
ASYMMETRICAL CONFLICT
6.2 Terrorism
Q: Which of the following is characteristic of
terrorism?
Answer:
True-False:
Answer:
True
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Nuclear Weapons
Distinguished from conventional weapons by
their enormous potential lethality
Fission vs. Fusion
NUKE IN A BOX
Nuclear weapons were invented during World War II and used
on two Japanese cities in 1945. Tens of thousands have been
built, and nine states now possess them. Obtaining fi
ssionable materials is the main difficulty in making nuclear
weapons. Terrorists efforts to obtain them pose a grave
threat. Here, in 1999, a U.S. congressman displays a mock-up
of the Soviet-built nuclear suitcase bomb that, in the wrong
hands, could kill hundreds of thousands of people.
Delivery systems
Efforts to control use
VULNERABLE
Proliferation
Implications
Forms of proliferation
Efforts to inhibit or prohibit proliferation
SOMETHING TO HIDE
DEFENSIVE MOVE
Answer:
True-False:
Answer:
False
TAKING OVER
Civil-Military Relations
Military governments and coup detat
Civilian control
Covert operations
Private contractors
Answer:
True-False:
Answer:
True
Chapter Discussion
Question
Military forces include a wide variety of
capabilities suited to different purposes.
Why does conventional warfare require
different kinds of forces than those needed
to threaten the use of nuclear, chemical,
or biological weapons? Further, why is
control of territory so crucial to some, and
why is it typically accomplished primarily
with ground forces?