Symbolically severe punishments may be proclaimed, for purposes of deterrence, as long as they are not actually carried out.
NEVER EVER USE YOUR VANISH against a hunter with deterrence, until he either already blew his PVP trinket, or already counterattacked you.
My father's deterrence shaded into acceptance.
India, after all, is interested only in "credible minimum deterrence" against the threats it faces.
On a deeper level, Israel is confronting the problem of how to adapt an old and familiar military doctrine to changing times. That doctrine is deterrence.
This guideline stresses the deterrence of war.
My view is that the new policy buys a trivial new incentive at the cost of a modest loss in deterrence.
Second, all nuclear-weapon states should abandon the nuclear deterrence policy based on first use of nuclear weapons and take credible steps to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons.
A truce now, if Hamas really did stop its fire, could be presented to voters as the successful rehabilitation of Israeli deterrence.
Israeli analyst Dan Schueftan says Israel needs to strengthen its new policy of deterrence.
The idea is to make punishment, and therefore deterrence, possible.
The concepts of deterrence against state actors are familiar, though not in a world of multiple nuclear powers.
For a powerful but small country, in the midst of hostile peoples, deterrence means showing a readiness to fight, and to inflict enough death and destruction so that foes think twice about attacking.
But if the objective is simply to rebuild deterrence, then this has already been achieved and he thinks the operation should stop.
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