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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments Richard K. Betts, director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, was a member of the National Commission on Terrorism and author of “The Soft Underbelly of American Primacy: Tactical Advantages of Terror,” Political Science Quarterly 117, no.1 (Spring 2002), pp. 19-36. Notes 1. See his Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (New York: Basic Books, 1989) and articles in International Security: “The Essential Irrelevance of Nuclear Weapons: Stability in the Postwar World,” 13, no. 2 (1988); “Pearl Harbor: Military Inconvenience, Political Disaster,” 16, no. 3 (1991/92); “The Banality of ‘Ethnic War,’” 25, no. 1 (2000). 2. Mueller, “Pearl Harbor,” 197, 203.
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