Citation

Payne KB. Wash. Q. 2001; 24(4): 109.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Georgetown University, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1162/016366001317149228

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

During the missile defense debate of the late 1960s, the inadequacy of a simplistic action-reaction arms race model was not blatantly obvious. Now it is. Numerous other factors typically drive decisions about the forces a country will, or will not, develop and deploy.