
Keith Payne begins by asking, "Did we really learn how to deter predictably and reliably during the Cold War?" He answers cautiously in the negative, pointing out that we know only that our policies toward the Soviet Union did not fail. What we can be more certain of, in Payne's...

Payne, president of the National Institute for Public Policy and a member of the State Department's Defense Trade Advisory Group, explains why US policymakers need to rethink traditional deterrence policy in the post-Cold War world of regional rogue powers whose actions are often...