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Insatiable Craving. Today's prospering capitalism creates enormous needs and endless challenges. Economically and socially, the U.S. is the world's most mobile nation: capital flows freely from lenders to borrowers, workers shift from job to job, and venturesome entrepreneurs jump quickly up the economic ladder. The changing trends of business, science and demography provide the risktaker with ever fresh chances. Technology's quantum leaps are opening new industries almost every year-transistors, computers, lasers, masers, color TV. The shift of the economy's vast weight from traditional heavy manufacturing into the growth area of services...
...fourth player is lanky Todd Wilkinson, a Barnaby product who had never played squash before his freshman year at Harvard. At number seven last season Wilkinson had an amazing record, winning all his matches by 3-0 score. He should not have much difficulty adjusting three notches up the ladder...
...illustrate a strategy of pure force, Kahn presents the metaphor of "the escalation ladder," an abstract model which considers the various levels of violence at which nations can negotiate, threaten, and make war. The ladder begins at the level of an "ostensible crisis," in which neither side takes its opponent's demands seriously, and works its way up through forty-four rungs and six thresholds to "spasm war," in which a nation fires its total arsenal against the enemy with the goal of maximum destruction...
...chief purpose of the escalation ladder metaphor is to clarify our options for action at the "middle rungs," when we are using large conventional forces and threatening nuclear war to coerce our enemies. Only if we know how to move up and down the ladder skillfully, will we be able to pursue the national interest and at the same time avoid a possible escalation to all-out nuclear...
...raising the level of violence by subtle degrees. Our goal--what Kahn calls a "desired aftermath," --has been to coerce the North Vietnamese into negotiations under terms acceptable to the United States. But according to the New York Times reports of last week, our careful steps up the escalation ladder seem to have had negative effects...