Draft Deterring States and Non State Actors: Lessons for Hamas (original) (raw)

How do battlefield outcomes convert to strategic deterrence stability? Does the use of traditional tools of conventional deterrence, tools such as punishment, denial, or cumulative deterrence, lead to strategically successful deterrence outcomes against states and non-state actors, or does such an outcome depend on battlefield victory? And, if the latter, under what circumstances? Policy makers and scholars interested in how conventional deterrence works against states and non-state actors (NSAs) cannot provide a reassuring answer. Israeli policy makers have long been puzzled