Wrestling with Deterrence: Bush Administration Strategy After 9/11
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Knopf, Jeffrey W.
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2008-10
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After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, many observers concluded that the
central American strategies of the Cold War – containment and deterrence – no
longer applied. Deterring suicide terrorists is a daunting challenge, as people who
plan to kill themselves to carry out an attack have no reason to care about a threat
to punish them after the fact. Deterring the organizations that send suicide terrorists
is also difficult, because such non-state actors may ‘lack a return address’ against
which to retaliate. As then Under Secretary of State John Bolton expressed it soon
after 9/11, people willing to fly airplanes into buildings are ‘not going to be deterred
by anything’.
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The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13523260802284076
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National Security Affairs
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