The limits of military power

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-92

  de Wijk, Rob ^a,b  

^a Royal Military Academy Sandhurst   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0040670053     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/016366002753358339     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. U.S. Department of Defense, Quadrennial Defense Review Report, September 30, 2001.
2. L. J. Shadwell, Lockhart's Advance through Tirah (London: W. Thacker & Co., 1898), pp. 100-105.
3. "Rumsfeld," International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2001, p. 6.
4. S. L. Marquis, Unconventional Warfare: Rebuilding U.S. Special Operations Forces (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1997), p. 2.
5. "Rumsfeld," p. 6.
6. See Thomas A. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966); Alexander L. George and W. E. Simons, eds., The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994); Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996). See also Lawrence Freedman, Strategic Coercion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Colin S. Gray, Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Richard N. Haass, Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994); Michael O'Hanlon, Swing Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1997); and B. R. Pirnie and W. E. Simons, Soldiers for Peace (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1996).
7. See Thomas A. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966); Alexander L. George and W. E. Simons, eds., The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994); Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996). See also Lawrence Freedman, Strategic Coercion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Colin S. Gray, Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Richard N. Haass, Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994); Michael O'Hanlon, Swing Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1997); and B. R. Pirnie and W. E. Simons, Soldiers for Peace (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1996).
8. See Thomas A. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966); Alexander L. George and W. E. Simons, eds., The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994); Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996). See also Lawrence Freedman, Strategic Coercion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Colin S. Gray, Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Richard N. Haass, Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994); Michael O'Hanlon, Swing Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1997); and B. R. Pirnie and W. E. Simons, Soldiers for Peace (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1996).
9. See Thomas A. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966); Alexander L. George and W. E. Simons, eds., The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994); Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996). See also Lawrence Freedman, Strategic Coercion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Colin S. Gray, Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Richard N. Haass, Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994); Michael O'Hanlon, Swing Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1997); and B. R. Pirnie and W. E. Simons, Soldiers for Peace (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1996).
10. See Thomas A. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966); Alexander L. George and W. E. Simons, eds., The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994); Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996). See also Lawrence Freedman, Strategic Coercion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Colin S. Gray, Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Richard N. Haass, Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994); Michael O'Hanlon, Swing Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1997); and B. R. Pirnie and W. E. Simons, Soldiers for Peace (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1996).
11. See Thomas A. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966); Alexander L. George and W. E. Simons, eds., The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994); Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996). See also Lawrence Freedman, Strategic Coercion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Colin S. Gray, Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Richard N. Haass, Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994); Michael O'Hanlon, Swing Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1997); and B. R. Pirnie and W. E. Simons, Soldiers for Peace (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1996).
12. See Thomas A. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966); Alexander L. George and W. E. Simons, eds., The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994); Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996). See also Lawrence Freedman, Strategic Coercion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Colin S. Gray, Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Richard N. Haass, Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994); Michael O'Hanlon, Swing Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1997); and B. R. Pirnie and W. E. Simons, Soldiers for Peace (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1996).
13. See Thomas A. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966); Alexander L. George and W. E. Simons, eds., The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994); Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996). See also Lawrence Freedman, Strategic Coercion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Colin S. Gray, Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Richard N. Haass, Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994); Michael O'Hanlon, Swing Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1997); and B. R. Pirnie and W. E. Simons, Soldiers for Peace (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1996).
14. Schelling, Arms and Influence, pp. 2-3.
15. Ibid., pp. 69-91; see also Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1965).
16. Ibid., pp. 69-91; see also Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1965).
17. George and Simons, Limits of Coercive Diplomacy, p. 7.
18. "U.S. Strategists Begin to Favor Threat to Use Nuclear Weapons," International Herald Tribune, October 6-7, 2001, p. 4.
19. Pape, Bombing to Win, p. 316.
20. Prime Minister Tony Blair, speech to the Labor Party Conference, London, October 2, 2001.
21. International Institute for Strategic Studies, "U.S. Military Spending," Strategic Comments 6, no. 4 (May 2000).
22. J. Teufel Dreyer, The PLA and the Kosovo Conflict (Carlisle, Penn.: U.S. Army War College, May 2000), p. 3.
23. F. Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992).
24. "Berlusconi Vaunts West's Superiority," International Herald Tribune, September 27, 2001.
25. M. Ignatieff, Whose Universal Values? The Crisis in Human Rights (The Hague: Paemium Erasmianum, 1999).
26. Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).