Acronyms Introduction Part I: The Balance of Terror: Steady or Precarious? Assured or Delicate Deterrence? Cities and Deterrence Assured Coercion: Bridging Past and Future Part II: Strategic Revisionism: Thrusts against Orthodoxy Soviet Military Doctrine and Stable Deterrence The U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative: A Prospectus of Uncertainty Is a Soviet "Bolt from the Blue" Impossible? Part III: Strategic Command and Control: Missions and Limitation Protracted Conflict and Strategic C3: Missing Links Reciprocal Command Survivability and Superpower Strategy Part IV: Improving Extended Deterrence: Roles for Conventional and Nuclear Forces Theater Nuclear and Conventional Force Improvements The U.S. Maritime Strategy: Escalation and War Termination Part V: Pulling it All Together War Termination and U.S. Strategic Concepts: The Missing Endgame Conclusions and Reflections Selected Bibliography Index