Category: In Response
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Trading National for Service: How Conscription cripples State Control in exchange for Military Might
This response essay seeks to illustrate why conscription is a process that does not produce political control, coherence and influence, but rather spends that very resource of control in exchange for the military resource of manpower.
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A Gray-Zone shaped Hole: Why “Escalation Ladders” affect Deterrence analysis and planning
this essay will attempt to build upon LTC Harris Tan’s piece on deterrence through adopting and adapting the “escalation ladder” to think about conflict and aggression with greater logical specificity and clarity.
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