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Signaling Ignorance: What the Pentagon Gets Wrong about Coercion

April 20, 2017
Signaling Ignorance: What the Pentagon Gets Wrong about Coercion
Signaling Ignorance: What the Pentagon Gets Wrong about Coercion

Signaling Ignorance: What the Pentagon Gets Wrong about Coercion

Van Jackson
April 20, 2017

In this episode of “Pacific Pundit,” we explain how the Pentagon gets coercion wrong, what hip-hop tells us about deterrence, and why it all matters. Our history segment recalls Operation Rolling Thunder, the failed bombing campaign of North Vietnam. And in an interview with Matt Fuhrmann (Stanford University, Texas A&M University), we discuss his new co-authored book (with Todd Sescher), Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy, and how unhelpful nuclear weapons are for coercion.

Image: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Z.A. Landers

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