472NOT02.DOC					September 8, 1996

1. What is the difference between making someone give something to you and
taking it?

2. Do threats work on capabilities or on motivations and intentions?

3. What is the difference between brute force and coercion?

4. Can a threat operate against a driver-less vehicle?

5. Why are live captives worth more than enemy dead?

6. Who engaged in threats and extortion, Hitler or his General Staff?

7. Is military action an alternative to bargaining or a part of the
bargaining process?

8. Distinguish between terror and sabotage.

9. What was the political target of the atomic attack on Hiroshima?

10. In the strategy of conflict, is war more a contest of strength or a
competition in risk-taking?

11. Distinguish military from political/military strategy.

12. Is deterrence about capabilities or intentions?

13. How can people deter cars by walking in front of them?

14. If you are likely to be hurt by carrying out a threat, does it lower
your credibility?  Can arthritics at a cocktail party credibly threaten? 

15. In the art of commitment, how can you couple capabilities to
objectives?  What is the relation of bridge burning to commitment?  Do you
burn the bridge before you cross it or after? 

16. How are commitments interdependent?

17. Is Israel like California regarding extended deterrence?

18. How do you escape commitments?

19. How do you erode your adversary's commitments?

20. Distinguish deterrence from compellence.

21. Relate threats to assurances.

22. What is graduated deterrence?  Extended deterrence?

23. What connects proscribed action and threatened responses?

24. What is brinkmanship? Illustrate with rocking boats.

25. In the manipulation of risk, why give the opponent the last clear
chance to avoid disaster?

26. How does limited war relate to generation of risks?

27. If you are invited to play chicken and decline, have you played?