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Deterrence. By Lawrence Freedman. Cambridge, MA: Polity
Press, 2004. 160p. $59.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.The concept of deterrence—the effort to make an adversary's
costs and risks of going to war greater than the political incentives
pushing in that direction—was the centerpiece of academic national
security studies and the core policy concern of Western governments
throughout much of the Cold War. Today, in the post-9/11 world,
deterrence has taken a back seat to a different set of strategic concepts:
preemption and prevention. Both involve destroying an enemy's
capabilities before he can harm you, the former when the threat is
imminent, the latter when it is potential (pp. 85–89). In his timely
and useful book, Lawrence Freedman offers a compelling account of the
decline of deterrence and creatively seeks to revitalize it as a subject
of scholarly inquiry and as a viable policy in the post-9/11
world.

Responds to James W. Davis's "Abusing the Holocaust Analogy?" (2006), which criticizes Desch's (2006) assertion that misuse of a "Holocaust analogy" has confounded US post-Cold War foreign policy making regarding Israel & genocide prevention. It is contended that Desch's characterization of the Holocaust analogy is indeed supported by a substantial body of scholarly & advocacy writing on Allied failures before & during the Holocaust. In addition, Davis is considered incorrect for suggesting that Desch sees debunking the myth of abandonment as grounds enough to question US foreign policy. Desch also rejects Davis's categorization of the former's neorealism, asserting that neorealism can indeed accommodate the domestic variables Desch is accused of ignoring, & Davis's depiction of realism amoral & unable to reconcile interests & ethics. In closing, Davis's charge that, essentially, Desch is anti-Semitic, is seen as merely a rhetorical tactic & an unfair assessment of the latter's argument that offers little of substance to the analysis. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay covering a book by Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts, The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy (2015).

New Security Studies editor-in-chief offers a look at where the journal is & where it is heading for the next two years. After providing the journal's mission, the challenge of raising its profile is addressed, & two changes -- a new Web site & shift to an automated manuscript management system -- are noted. D. Edelman