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Why Containment Works: Power, Proliferation, and Preventive War

Why Containment Works: Power, Proliferation, and Preventive War

Thies, Wallace J.

Hardcover

Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

Armed ForcesGeneral Political ScienceOther Wars

ISBN10: 150174948X
ISBN13: 9781501749483
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Nov 15 2020
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Why Containment Works examines the conduct of American foreign policy during and after the Cold War through the lens of applied policy analysis. Wallace J. Thies argues that the Bush Doctrine after 2002 was a theory of victory--a coherent strategic view that tells a state how best to transform scarce resources into useful military assets, and how to employ those assets in conflicts. He contrasts prescriptions derived from the Bush Doctrine with an alternative theory of victory, one based on containment and deterrence, which US presidents employed for much of the Cold War period. There are, he suggests, multiple reasons for believing that containment was working well against Saddam Hussein's Iraq after the first Gulf War and that there was no need to invade Iraq in 2003.

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