Deterrence
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Deterrence is the effort to avoid war by creating such strength on one side of the conflict that the other side does not challenge, and so peace is maintained. The various ways of attempting deterrence, and at different times, we have characterized in different terms. Sometimes we have been successful in deterring aggression and in preventing war, while perhaps just as often we have failed to deter as desired and have become embroiled in a war we tried to prevent. Three of the failures of this century are seen in the onset of World War II, the Korean War, and Serbia. Three successes can be seen in the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the threat that China would attack Taiwan. The question of whether World War II was avoidable or inevitable has been debated for decades, but clearly the victorious side sought to deter Germany from undertaking any further expansionist policies. Some believe that the war would have been avoidable had the victorious forces treated Germany differently at the end of World War I. The policy of appeasement undertaken by Britain in the 1930s is also often cited as a policy that, had it been different, might have led to a different outcome. A.J.P. Taylor writes: "The Second World War was, in large part, a repeat performance of the first" (Taylor 18). The end of the First World War was an occasion for the victors to try to assure themselves that Germany could never wage war again. The Germans were forced
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the North and the South inevitably led to tense military confrontation, another major burden placed on the government. In 1948, the U.S. military government handed over to the government of the Republic of Korea its administrative authority, and this was followed by the conclusion between the Republic of Korea and the United states of a provisional military pact. It also meant the establishment of the Economic Cooperation Administration. The United States withdrew its troops from South Korea in 1948, leaving behind only a small group of military advisers. At the same time, the Soviet Union pulled its forces out of the North, where they had previously established the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. The Soviets signed a number of agreements with the Korean Communists to provide military, economic, technological, and cultural assistance to the region. Communist China also established diplomatic relations with the north, and in 1949 the Communist army in the north provoked sporadic skirmishes along the 38th Parallel (A Handbook of Korea, 113).
SERBIA
The current conflict in Serbia is a continuation of a failed policy from the Bush administration. During the 1992 election, many commentators analyzed Bush's response to
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