Security Through Behavioral Modification

Abstract

The previous chapter dealt with ways of increasing security by reducing the level of armaments and restructuring armed forces, either globally or in the European theater, however defined. Such an approach has two principal aims. One is to reduce the risk of war in both the short and the medium term, because if armaments and armies are roughly equal, an aggressor is deterred from attacking by the low probability of victory. The second is to limit war damage, because lower levels of armaments should make any war that does happen less destructive. The theme of this chapter is the avoidance of particular types of war, essentially from a short-run perspective, taking into account the transitional period for military forces which we now seem to be entering.