deterrence

Iran is conducting strikes on ships as a calculated risk to enhance its deterrence, believing that U.S. President Trump will avoid escalating to full-scale war. The strategy aims to restore deterrence through limited escalation without triggering all-out conflict.

A 30-year-old man was killed near Nazareth in Yafia, marking the sixth fatality in the Arab community within 24 hours. Police have launched a homicide investigation, with senior officials attributing the crime wave to a 'total collapse of the system' and the absence of deterrence.

Rutte is traveling to Washington to discuss topics including deterrence, financing, and SAFE. The article highlights these key areas of focus for the visit.

Iran's attack on Israel aims to restore deterrence but avoid a return to war. The action reflects a strategic balance between asserting military presence and preventing broader conflict.

The article argues that traditional deterrence strategies are ineffective against modern synthetic asymmetry, where non-state actors and cyber operations exploit technological convergence to cause disproportionate economic and societal disruption. It emphasizes the need for democracies to adopt 'synthetic resilience'—a capacity to absorb and adapt to multi-domain attacks—highlighting examples like the 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which caused billions in downstream economic losses.

Two top US Republicans, chairs of the House and Senate armed services committees, criticize Germany's troop cuts, arguing that withdrawing 5,000 service personnel risks weakening deterrence against Russia.