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  • MISSILE DEFENSE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    KEITH B. PAYNE
    This book examines the implications of emerging security environment for missile defense. It identifies the lessons concerning the questions provided by the Gulf War, focusing on the redirection of the Strategic Defense Initiative towards a capability for global protection against limited strikes. ...

    $1,200.00

  • LASER WEAPONS IN SPACE
    KEITH B. PAYNE
    This is the first comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding the potential development by the United States of a space-based laser weapons program. The authors assess the implications of arms control agreements for a satellite-based laser program, including discussions of recent Soviet space-related arms control initiatives and the forthcoming ABM treaty review. They o...

    $1,200.00

  • NUCLEAR DETERRENCE IN U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS
    KEITH B. PAYNE
    This book critically examines U.S. attempts to establish a nuclear deterrent against the Soviet Union and offers new approaches to dealing with the changing strategic environment. Dr. Payne maintains that the most influential theories of nuclear deterrence--Assured Vulnerability and Flexible Targeting—are unrealistic, given Soviet foreign policy and attitudes toward nuclear war...

    $1,200.00

  • MINIMUM DETERRENCE: EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE
    KEITH B. PAYNE / JAMES SCHLESINGER
    The National Institute for Public Policy’s new book, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence, is the first of its kind. Dr. Keith Payne, former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and an unparalleled bipartisan group of senior civilian and military experts critically examine eight basic assumptions of Minimum Deterrence against available evidence. In general, Minimum Dete...

    $1,200.00

  • UNDERSTANDING DETERRENCE
    PAYNE, KEITH B.
    For decades, the rational actor model served as the preferred guide for U.S. deterrence policy. It has been a convenient and comforting guide because it requires little detailed knowledge of an opponent’s unique decision-making process and yet typically provides confident generalizations about how deterrence works. The model tends to postulate common decision-making parameters ...

    $1,260.00