Glenn Snyder

I mean, there's always some debate between the South and the North, but broadly speaking, NATO recognises that the threat to the North Atlantic area comes from Russia.

And there's a quote from Glenn Snyder that says, alliances have no meaning apart from the adversary threat to which they are a response.

So if these three countries can't agree on the threat or the adversary, then it's hard to see it being a really substantive alliance.

The other question mark that we should pose at this point is, you know, how much do we believe in their willingness to bear costs for one another? I mean, it's totally untested, clearly, at this stage, but it's also unknowable.

Now, those words had existed before I wrote Bombing to Win, but they had not really been used in a very prominent way for many, many decades.

So I want to give Glenn Snyder due credit for the word denial.

But nonetheless, this really was the book that really made a lot of sense of this for coercion, getting states to change their behavior.

And what the book shows, both with logic and also with systematic case study and evidence, is that punishment alone, when you punish your foe, whether that's hitting their economy, attacking their people indirectly, attacking their people directly, all these different forms of punishment, no matter how sophisticated, how smart, on its own, it doesn't work very well.

Here we go." But it does ...

It made me think about, and I was just reading some very, very, um, aca- theoretical academic literature by Glenn Snyder, who wrote a book called Alliance Politics, which I've just finished reading.

He talks about ...

He and other scholars talk about, in nuclear deterrence, the balance of power versus the balance of terror, in that with nuclear weapons, you don't need to invade a country in order to inflict damage on it.