This book brings together enduring, influential works on the role of military power in foreign policy and international politics. Now in its eighth edition, this fully updated reader has been significantly revised with twenty innovative and up-to-date selections meticulously chosen and edited by leading scholars Robert Art and Kelly Greenhill.

Preface PART I STRATEGIC AND ETHICAL DIMENSIONS How Force Is Used 1 The Fungibility of Force –Robert J. Art 2 Deterrence and Compellence –Thomas C. Schelling 3 The Sources of Military Doctrine –Barry R. Posen 4 Offense, Defense, and Cooperation under the Security Dilemma –Robert Jervis How Force Should Be Used 5 The Just War Tradition Revisited –Seyom Brown 6 The Proportionality Principle in War –Laurie R. Blank Forms of Coercion 7 Nuclear Myths and Political Realities –Kenneth N. Waltz 8 The Lost Logic of Deterrence –Richard K. Betts 9 Coercive Diplomacy –Alexander L. George 10 What Terrorists Want –Louise Richardson 11 Forced Migration as a Coercive Instrument –Kelly M. Greenhill PART II CASE STUDIES The Great Power Era 12 The Cult of the Offensive in 1914 –Jack L. Snyder 13 Hitler and the Blitzkrieg Strategy –John J. Mearsheimer 14 Japan’s Fatal Blunder –Sir George Sansom 15 The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb –Louis Morton The Superpower Era 16 The Cuban Missile Crisis –David Welch, James G. Blight, and Bruce J. Allyn 17 Flexible Response and the Vietnam War –John Lewis Gaddis The Unipolar Era 18 The U. S. and Coercive Diplomacy –Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin 19 The Second Iraq War –Peter R. Mansoor 20 The Limits of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan –Karl W. Eikenberry PART III CONTEMPORARY ISSUES The Projection of American Military Power 21 The Strategy of Restraint –Barry R. Posen 22 The Strategy of Deep Engagement –Stephen G. Brooks, G. John Ikenberry, and William C. Wohlforth 23 Crisis Instability in US-China Relations –Avery Goldstein 24 Why Drones Work –Daniel Byman The Utility of Nuclear, Biological, and Cyber Weapons 25 Nuclear Weapons and Conflict –Mark S. Bell and Nicholas L. Miller 26 Pathogens as Weapons –Gregory Koblenz 27 The Myth of Cyberwar –Erik Gartzke Intervention in Internal Conflicts 28 Puttering with Primacy –Richard K. Betts 29 Humanitarian Intervention Comes of Age –Jon Western and Joshua A. Goldstein 30 Regime Change and Its Consequences –Alexander B. Downes 31 Ten Ways to Lose at Counterinsurgency –Kelly M. Greenhill and Paul Staniland 32 The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement –Barbara F. Walter Possible Future Developments 33 The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups –Audrey Kurth Cronin 34 A World Without Nuclear Weapons? –Thomas C. Schelling 35 Law, Ethics, and Autonomous Weapons Systems –Kenneth Anderson and Matthew Waxman Acknowledgments Index About the Contributors