Sentence examples for deterring aggression from inspiring English sources

However imperfect in practice, deterring aggression and crimes against humanity must remain the primary goal.

Sagan recalls, "He understood that Richard Nixon believed in the so-called 'madman theory' " — deterring aggression by encouraging America's rivals to suspect that Nixon was irrational.

In championing the oppressed, deterring aggression, curbing the excesses of despots, challenging the victimisation of scapegoats, tackling poverty or preventing genocide, the international community still has a long way to go.

The new strategy, as reported by Thom Shanker in The Times on Friday, expects American forces to be prepared to win one major conflict "decisively," while deterring aggression elsewhere, conducting small holding actions and peacekeeping operations, and defending the American homeland against terrorism and missile attack.

When the goal is deterring aggression, the key metric of success isn't how many weapons a country possesses.

In many ways, it read like the to-do list for the U.S.-Japan alliance: Deterring aggression.

What's interesting about the pattern is not our ability to deter aggression.

The idea behind "market deterrence" is that financial markets will punish countries for military adventurism, and this can deter aggression.

At the same time, we can build our air forces to deter aggression in Asia and elsewhere.

However, this policy was never used in practise - the mere existence of nuclear weapons was sufficient to deter aggression.

Second, our existing arsenal of deployed strategic weapons is more than adequate to deter aggression against us and our allies.