Word: blackmailing
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...failure (1) to align our diplomatic policy with military strategy, and (2) to make adequate provisions for a policy should deterrence fail, we have laid ourselves open to the danger of being paralyzed by our arsenal (1) if threatened with all-out war, and (2) if faced with nuclear blackmail in a limited conflict. By making all strategy contingent on the former, we have failed to come to grips with the latter. "Against an opponent known to consider nuclear war as the worse evil, nuclear blackmail is an almost fool-proof strategy." Juxtapose this statement with the following: "To rely...
...place only a little step between surrender and all-out war," Kissinger states, "the Soviet opportunity to blackmail the free world will substantially remain. The dread alternative of surrender or suicide will even be compounded by the risk of a series of 'small' defeats, none of which seems 'worth' an all-our war.... In the approaching period of mutual invulnerability, the United States cannot impose on itself the burden of having to respond to every challenge with the threat of self-destruction...
...thermonuclear conflict; post-war recovery; concrete exploration of deterrence; how deterrence has failed in the past and might fail in the near future; the deepening significance of such phrases as "flexible strategy," "limited war capacity," "active and passive defense"; and prevention of pre-attack and post-attack blackmail...
...that a woman can best supply the answers, or at least plant them in the wondering mind. Who was the real Silvestri? The mild, sweet, physically unattractive fellow who wrote poetry, loved nature and lived meagerly off his ancestral estate-or an unsuccessful lover who was willing to use blackmail if necessary to bring his friend's wife to bed and marriage? There are several replies of sorts in this excellent short novel, a book that suggests more than it tells and tells no more than it must to make its point: that love and friendship are both...
...newly appointed chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Walter Heller is willing "to accept-in preference to high unemployment-a 'tolerable' amount of inflation," then we as a nation should be ready to accept a little bit of embezzlement, bank robbery, blackmail...