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On rare occasions in the history of any subject, a thinker has an insight and articulates a new concept or idea, after which everyone says ‘How brilliant! How obvious! How did we ever get along before without it?’ Such is the case with the concept of ‘reassurance’ that Michael Howard develops in his Paper. How did we ever get along without it? We surely will get along in the future only by making good use of it. It is the central contribution of an absolutely first-rate Paper, which is throughout original in thought, elegant in phrasing, and penetrating in analysis.
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John J. Mearsheimer, ‘Why Soviets Can’t Win Quickly in Central Europe’, International Security, Vol. 7 (Summer 1982), pp. 5–39.
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Huntington, S.P. (1983). Broadening the Strategic Focus: Comments on Michael Howard’s Paper. In: Bertram, C. (eds) Defence and Consensus. International Institute for Strategic Studies conference papers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07141-8_12
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