...retaliation against nations means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizen to defend. Containment is not possible when unbalanced...weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons or missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies. The war on terror will not be won on the...

...explain, in addition, why the old doctrines could not work with a regime like Saddam Hussein's in Iraq: Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators...weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons or missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies. Refusing to flinch from the implications...

...deterrence "means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizens to defend", and containment is not possible "when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction ("WMD") can deliver those weapons surreptitiously to our shores or secretly provide them to terrorist...

...deserves praise for seeing beyond the universal application of MAD. In 2002 at West Point he said: For much of the last century, America's defense relied...on missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies.18 Is President Bush a master of illusion? Certainly, if American policy in the Middle East...

...speech in June 2002 at the West Point military academy in which he dismissed deterrence and containment: For much of the last century, America's defense relied...on missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies.13 Then, in the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States of America, the...

...doctrine of deterrence and containment. In some cases those strategies still apply. But new threats require new thinking. Deterrence, the promise of massive...defend America and our friends by hoping for the best. ... If we wait for threats to fully materialize we will have waited for too long. 43 The Bush doctrine...

...(2002a, p. 15). See also President Bush's June 1, 2002, commencement speech at the US Military Academy: "Deterrence — the promise of massive retaliation...missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies" (White House, "President Bush Delivers Graduation Speech at West Point, United States Military Academy,...

...century," he continued, "America's defense relied on the Cold War doctrines of deterrence and containment. Deterrence — the promise of massive retaliation...on missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies."61 Of course, deterrence and containment per se are not Cold War doctrines, and there is no...

...discourse: previous security strategies were inappropriate in the new, post-second American 9/11 age. 'Deterrence - the promise of massive retaliation against...weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons 72 George W. Bush, 'President Bush delivers graduation speech at West Point', 1 June 2002, at http://www.whitehouse.gov...

...retaliation against nations—means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizen to defend. Containment is not possible when unbalanced...missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies." 2 ' If first strikes cannot be deterred, then they must be prevented, whether the source is a terrorist...