Includes bibliographical references.

The fungibility of force / Robert J. Art -- Explaining military doctrine / Barry R. Posen -- Offense, defense, and the causes of war / Stephen Van Evera -- International terrorism / Brian M. Jenkins -- The unimpressive record of atomic diplomacy / McGeorge Bundy -- The utility of nuclear deterrence / Robert Jervis -- Nuclear myths and political realities / Kenneth N. Waltz -- The cult of the offensive in 1914 / Jack Snyder -- Hitler and the blitzkrieg strategy / John J. Mearsheimer -- Japan's fatal blunder / George Sansom -- The decision to use the atomic bomb / Louis Morton --The Korean War / Morton H. Halperin -- The Cuban missile crisis / David A. Welch, James G. Blight, Bruce J. Allyn -- Flexible response and Vietnam / John Lewis Gaddis -- Nuclear weapons and the 1973 Middle East crisis / Barry M. Blechman, Douglas M. Hart -- How Kuwait was won / Lawrence Freedman, Efraim Karsh -- Bosnia : triumph of the lack of will / James Gow -- From preponderance to offshore balancing / Christopher Layne -- An expanded NATO vs. Russia and China / Bruce Russett, Allan C. Stam -- The strategy of selective engagement / Robert J. Art -- What is the threat? / Steve Fetter -- Peace, stability, and nuclear weapons / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Why nuclear spread is dangerous / Scott D. Sagan -- Intervention in ethnic and ideological civil wars / Chaim Kaufmann -- Military responses to refugee disasters / Barry R. Posen -- The obsolescence of major war / John Mueller -- Paths to peace : is democracy the answer? / Miriam Fendius Elman -- The utility of force in a world of scarcity / John Orme.