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On Escalation : Metaphors and Scenarios by Herman Kahn (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101412811627

ISBN-139781412811620

eBay Product ID (ePID)73605907

Product Key Features

Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NameOn Escalation : Metaphors and Scenarios

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

SubjectMilitary Science, General, Political

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Political Science, Technology & Engineering

AuthorHerman Kahn

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2009-031577

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"This [reissue of Kahn's On Thermonuclear War and On Escalation ] could not come at a better time. Human nature has not made much moral progress since the end of the Third Reich but its very worst instinct for total destruction has, so far, been held at bay by the certainty of self-destruction. We need someone to remind us again of how to think about the unthinkable." -- Mark Safranski, zenpundit.com

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal355/.0335

SynopsisProbes the dynamics of escalation and demonstrates how the intensification of conflict can be depicted by means of a definite escalation ladder, ascent of which brings opponents closer to all-out war. This book asks the reader to face unemotionally the terrors of a world fully capable of suicide and to consider the alternatives to such a path., In this widely discussed and influential book, Herman Kahn probes the dynamics of escalation and demonstrates how the intensification of conflict can be depicted by means of a definite escalation ladder, ascent of which brings opponents closer to all-out war. At each rung of the ladder, before the climb proceeds, decisions must be made based on numerous choices. Some are clear and obvious, others obscure, but the options are always there. Thermonuclear annihilation, says Kahn, is unlikely to come through accident; but nations may elect to climb the ladder to extinction. The basic material for the book was developed in briefings delivered by Kahn to military and civilian experts and revised in the light of his findings of a trip to Vietnam in the 1960s. In On Escalation he states the facts squarely. He asks the reader to face unemotionally the terrors of a world fully capable of suicide and to consider carefully the alternatives to such a path. In the never-never land of nuclear warfare, where nuclear incredulity is pervasive and paralyzing to the imagination even for the professional analyst, salient details of possible scenarios for the outbreak of war, and even more for war fighting, are largely unexplored or even unnoticed. For scenarios in which war is terminated, the issues and possibilities of which are almost completely unstudied, the situation is even worse. Kahn's discussion throws light on the terrain and gives the individual a sense of the range of possibilities and complexities involved and are useful.

LC Classification NumberUA11.K32 2009