counterthreats

And so by the time the Israeli jets reached the northeast corner of Syria and turned toward the Syrian reactor on the Euphrates, threats and counterthreats may well have been zapping through the ether and suddenly both nuclear superpowers with approximately five thousand land-based nuclear missiles on “hair-trigger” alert were on the verge of—only one misperception or hasty overreaction, one degree of separation away—being drawn into a potential regional nuclear war.

How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

The Cold War ended not with the clash of armies on fields of battle or navies at sea, but as it had been fought: through threats and counterthreats, proxy wars waged through client states, and diplomatic maneuvers.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

For chrissake Nixon was drunk during the Yom Kippur whirlwind the 1973 Egyptian invasion of Israel in which threats and counterthreats of nuclear intervention rocketed between Israel, Cairo, Washington, and Moscow.

How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

And so by the time the Israeli jets reached the northeast corner of Syria and turned toward the Syrian reactor on the Euphrates, threats and counterthreats may well have been zapping through the ether and suddenly both nuclear superpowers with approximately five thousand land-based nuclear missiles on “hair-trigger” alert were on the verge of—only one misperception or hasty overreaction, one degree of separation away—being drawn into a potential regional nuclear war.

How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

The Cold War ended not with the clash of armies on fields of battle or navies at sea, but as it had been fought: through threats and counterthreats, proxy wars waged through client states, and diplomatic maneuvers.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

For chrissake Nixon was drunk during the Yom Kippur whirlwind the 1973 Egyptian invasion of Israel in which threats and counterthreats of nuclear intervention rocketed between Israel, Cairo, Washington, and Moscow.

How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

The violence, the bombings, the threats and counterthreats are all the more exhausting and senseless because they are, essentially, an elaborate delaying tactic.

A Plan of Attack For Peace 2009

When the saloonkeepers protested Bergh would shout them down, and if they made counterthreats he would wave his silver-headed walking stick like a war club until the bar manager backed down.

The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

When the saloonkeepers protested Bergh would shout them down, and if they made counterthreats he would wave his silver-headed walking stick like a war club until the bar manager backed down.

The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

When the saloonkeepers protested Bergh would shout them down, and if they made counterthreats he would wave his silver-headed walking stick like a war club until the bar manager backed down.

The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002