Word: deters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week's Independent warrants the reprobation of the entire Harvard community, not just that of the Gay Students Association members who immediately--and rightly--blasted it. The suggestion by Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences, that society should exert "negative social pressures to deter homosexuality, shows gross intolerance towards the gay community University officials should swiftly affirm that Pattullo's views are not Harvard...
Deterrence does not deter, it provokes. In promoting greater escalation, it makes more likely the very thing it claims to avert. We are pursuing peace by gambling with war. We cannot sow danger and reap security...
Would Westmoreland want the news "controlled" at an earlier stage in the process, when military steps or the threat of them might deter a war but might also lead to one? However much the Administration wanted to make El Salvador a testing ground, pollsters report the American public decidedly opposed to military involvement. At another place and another time, with the national interest more clearly at risk, could an Administration in the age of television act boldly? Democracy hasn't found the answer to that question...
...American response to the Soviet challenge: 1) that the U.S.S.R. conducts both domestic and foreign policy on the basis offeree; 2) that while there may be various marginal ways of inducing good behavior by the Kremlin with carrots, the U.S. must ultimately rely on the big stick to deter Soviet aggression; 3) since nuclear weapons are deployed in huge numbers on both sides, the U.S. must have a "force posture" that will dissuade the Soviets from throwing their considerable nuclear weight around. It is not necessary for the U.S. to match the Soviets missile for missile, megaton for megaton...
...must be in a position to do something worse, and to do it with such speed, precision and force that the Kremlin will not escalate the conflict to a higher and wider level of destruction. Ideally, the very existence of the American capability is supposed to deter the Soviets from seriously considering an attack, much less attempting...