Quotes About Deterrence

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

De acuerdo con la definición más sólida y aceptada, la disuasión dependía de convencer al objetivo de que los costes previstos superarían con mucho las presumibles ganancias; además, la disuasión se caracterizaba por limitar las ganancias al tiempo que se aumentaban los costes.

La acción de impedir los beneficios del otro mediante una creíble capacidad para detener la agresión en sus fases iniciales se conoció como «disuasión por negación»,[5] mientras que el aumento de los costes se denominó «disuasión por castigo». La negación era esencialmente otra palabra para denominar «defensa efectiva», la cual, si se comunicaba con suficiente antelación podía proporcionar un argumento convincente contra la agresión

Our enemies and allies alike must know that aggressors will pay an unspeakable price for challenging the United States. The best way to impose that price is global military dominance.

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

As nuclear weapons spread into more and more hands, the calculus of deterrence grows increasingly ephemeral and deterrence less and less reliable. In a widely proliferated world, it becomes ever more difficult to decide who is deterring whom and by what calculations.

Criminals who went against Doc seldom wound up in prison. They either learned a lesson that made them law-abiding men the rest of their lives--or they became dead criminals. Doc never did the job halfway.

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the place. It's basically a cold war for individuals: you've got a nuclear bomb, and I've got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.

The hyperreal is the abolition of the real not by violent destruction, but by its assumption, elevation to the strength of the model. Anticipation, deterrence, preventive transfiguration, etc.: the model acts as a sphere of absorption of the real.

The balance of terror is the terror of balance.

?nsan?n ya?ant?s?n? paralize eden ?eyin ad? atom bombas? atma tehdidi de?ildir. Ya?am?m?z? kanser eden ?eyin ad? cayd?rmad?r.

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

By God, war is not an option for two nuclear countries.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

The theory of mutual assured destruction was a great catalyst for peace.

The only thing ensuring our security is the certain knowledge that our nuclear boomers are still out there under the seas ready with swift retaliation if

Most attackers are looking for easy victims. They're not looking for a fight, not even a verbal one. Saying No makes you a less attractive target. Submitting and being nice to attackers in the hope that they will be nice to you in return is not the safest strategy." Saying "No!" helps you gather your energy, reminds you of your right to say No, draws attention, and expresses your power.

Aunque sigue siendo discutible que la pena de muerte sirva como disuasorio, los estudios demuestran que la probabilidad de que los criminales reincidan se reduce casi a la mitad después de la ejecución.

Mutually assured destruction.