The Deterrence and Strategy of Total War, 1959-1961

A Method of Analysis

by Herbert Goldhamer, Andy W. Marshall

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This study was primarily undertaken in order to develop additional methods for the analysis of deterrence and wartime strategy. The substantive conclusions are largely a by-product of the attempt to illustrate how the method of analysis operates. These substantive results are based on certain hypothetical numbers introduced to make clearer and more concrete the nature of the model employed.

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