TY - BOOK AU - Thomas C Schelling AU - Thomas C Schelling TI - Arms and influence SN - 9780300143379 U1 - 355.0335 SCH PY - 2008/// CY - New Haven PB - : Yale University Press KW - Social Sciences KW - Public administration KW - Military science N1 - 1. THE DIPLOMACY OF VIOLENCE -- 2. THE ART OF COMMITMENT -- 3. THE MANIPULATION OF RISK -- 4. THE IDIOM OF MILITARY ACTION -- 5. THE DIPLOMACY OF ULTIMATE SURVIVAL -- 6. THE DYNAMICS OF MUTUAL ALARM -- 7. THE DIALOGUE OF COMPETITIVE ARMAMENT -- N2 - Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as the science of victory. Today, however, in our world of nuclear weapons, military power is not so much exercised as threatened. It is ER -