Word: deterent
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...first assignment for arriving U.S. units, said Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, is "to deter any further Iraqi aggression" and, if deterrence fails, "to defend Saudi Arabia against attack." Some in Washington are worried that the dispatch of U.S. troops might provoke Saddam Hussein to launch a pre- emptive blitz. "He sees us coming," says Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "He could try to seize the oil fields and hold them hostage before we have enough men there to stop...
...poured thousands of troops into Saudi Arabia to stare down the Iraqis gathered threateningly at the border with Kuwait. Bush was betting that the very presence of G.I.s would deter Saddam from ordering his army forward. At the same time, the U.S. force served credible notice that Bush was indeed willing to put his own men at risk to protect the sanctity of the gulf states -- and their...
...Iraqis may have already taken othersteps to deter a direct military response...
Nuclear targeting is admittedly a complicated business. Planners must calculate the reliability and accuracy of the missiles and nuclear warheads, measure them against Soviet defenses and make a judgment on what it actually takes to deter the Kremlin from launching a first strike. Still, the notion of raining down nuclear weapons on the U.S.S.R. -- "convincing every last Soviet official that he's the target," as one Air Force official put it -- is sufficiently outrageous to spur experts to speak out. In the quarterly journal International Security, national security scholars Desmond Ball and Robert Toth call the current version of SIOP...
...legislature, I would vote against capital punishment. The U.S. is the only country among the Western democracies that still has it. I'm not sure that the taking of one life is justified by the taking of another. Also, contrary to what many people assume, capital punishment does not deter murder. There are about 20,000 murders committed in the U.S. each year, and that's been a fairly consistent figure. The U.S. permits unlimited sale and ownership of handguns, and the murder rate reflects that to some extent...