PS 0500 Lecture Notes - Mutual Assured Destruction, Arms Control, Cuban Missile Crisis
Document Summary
Thompson went against kennedy and said that khrushchev wants to be able to say he prevented kennedy from destroying castro: understand the thoughts that lie behind their decisions and actions. Lesson #5: proportionality should be a guideline in war. Lesson #7: belief and seeing are both often wrong. Lesson #8: be prepared to reexamine your reasoning. If we can"t persuade nations with comparable values you have to reexamine reasoning- war on vietnam. Intangibles: quality of training and resolve (how prepared soldiers are for combat) U. s. military spending increases during times of war. Korean, vietnam, 1980s under reagan nearing end of cold war, 1990s relative decline, 2000s increase for 9/11 and reached the same levels of spending as cold. But, we"re still in a post cold war world, and threats are different than in cold war. The security dilemma (another application of prisoner"s dilemma) Strategic setting where two actors are in anarchy (no central global government.
