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CHAPTER 6Military ForceCHAPTER 6

Military Force

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Seventh Edition

Joshua S. Goldstein

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How To Achieve A Favorable Outcome

How To Achieve A Favorable Outcome

• Diplomacy

• Trade

• International organizations

• Military

• Weapons

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Military and Nonmilitary Means of Leverage

Military and Nonmilitary Means of Leverage

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Configuring ForcesConfiguring Forces

• Military economics are based upon a country’s economic health, its goals and the comparisons made between countries

• Choosing weapons is not a easy task

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Estimated Great-Power Military Capabilities, 2001-2003

Estimated Great-Power Military Capabilities, 2001-2003

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Conventional ForcesConventional Forces

• Armies

• Holding territory

• Navies

• Air forces

• Power projection

• Logistics

• Intelligence

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Location of U.S. Military Forces, September 2004

Location of U.S. Military Forces, September 2004

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Weapons of Mass DestructionWeapons of Mass Destruction

• Nuclear weapons

• Chemical weapons

• Biological weapons

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Nuclear WeaponsNuclear Weapons

• Fusion weapons

• Fissionable material

• Ballistic missiles

• Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)

• Short-Range Ballistic Missiles (SRBMs)

• Cruise missiles

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Expanding Ranges of Indian and Pakistani Missiles, 1998-2003

Expanding Ranges of Indian and Pakistani Missiles, 1998-2003

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Ballistic Missile Capabilities, 2005

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Nuclear StrategyNuclear Strategy

• Mutually assured destruction• 1962, Cuban missile crisis• The Hotline Agreement• 1960’s, test ban treaties• 1968, non-proliferation treaty• 1972, Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty• 1970’s, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties

(SALT)• Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry

Vehicles (MIRV), adding warheads

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Nuclear Strategy and Arms ControlNuclear Strategy and Arms Control

• 1983, Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

• 1980’s and 1990’s, treaties signed to reduce nuclear forces

• 1996, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty