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The Unintended Consequences of German Deterrence
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Germany's evolving deterrence posture boils down to continued participation in NATO nuclear sharing and an ambitious conventional rearmament program. Due to its non‐nuclear status and a result of decades of underinvestment, Germany prioritizes modern conventional weapons.
Ulrich Kühn
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
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North Korean strategic culture: survival and security
Buletinul Ştiinţific al Academiei Trupelor de Uscat, 2018 During last year North Korea has made almost daily headline. Topics such as the strongest nuclear test, tests of missiles from medium range ballistic missiles (MRBM) to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), readiness to retaliate to any possible U ...
Husenicova Lucia
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Iran's Forward Defense in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Iran's security and defense initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2024 and how they reflect the extraterritorial application of the regime's forward defense doctrine. In response to the long‐term erosion of its homeland defense capabilities since the Iran‐Iraq War of the 1980s—driven by infrastructure ...
Ariel Limanya Limbu, Ronen A. Cohen
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Missile Defence: A View from Turkey. CEPS Commentaries, 12 October 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 On September 9th, the United States announced that it was planning a multi-billion dollar sale of 13 Patriot fire units, 72 PAC-3 missiles and a range of related hardware for ground-based air defence to Turkey.
Zalewski, Piotr.
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Signals, Red Lines, and Collision: The Israel‐Iran Spiral and US Intervention
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract The Iran War erupted in February 2026 without UN authorization, and Washington's rationales—Iranian nuclear ambitions, missile capacity, and proxy threats—map more closely onto Israeli than US security interests. Why have we seen two major conflicts between these belligerents in less than one year?
Buğra Sari
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Trump's Transactional Diplomacy: Breakthrough or Breakdown?
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract The US‐Israeli war on Iran appears to demonstrate the perils of a transactional diplomacy that dismisses the rules‐based, liberal international order in pursuit of American dominance. Much of the growing literature assumes transactional diplomacy will be a temporary, Trump‐driven departure from traditional, values‐based statecraft. By contrast,
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
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Fabrication and Test of Flexible Joint Thrust Vector Controlling System in SRM Using Polyurethane Elastomer [PDF]
فصلنامه علوم و فناوری فضایی, 2012 Outer space ballistic missiles use thrust vector control system and it is because aerodynamic surfaces are not efficient in thin air.Flexible joint is the most useful type of thrust vector control system through satellite transporters and ballistic ...
H. Mahdavy Moghaddam, M. M. Javadi
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Pacific Focus, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Korean President Park Geun‐hye's 2016 decision to authorize the deployment of the U.S. Forces Korea THAAD system—and Beijing's subsequent economic and diplomatic coercion—marked a decisive inflection point in Seoul's China policy.
Joel Atkinson
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Management of Penetrating Arrow Neck Injury: A Report of Two Cases
MAMC Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020 Arrow neck injuries are rare in the developed countries due to development of modern firearms and ballistic missiles. However, they are still occuring in developing nations, due to incessant community clashes.
Auwal Adamu, Yusuf Buka Ngamdu
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