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And with the exception of napalm and Agent Orange used in Vietnam, the United States is not known to have used chemical weapons in battle since World War I. To allay concerns about any loss in deterrence, the Clinton administration has said that the United States will respond to any use of chemical weapons with an "overwhelming and devastating" attack.
Also the recently declassified CIA assessment assumes that the "rogue states" are likely to view their few ICBMs more as weapons of deterrence and coercive diplomacy than as weapons of war.
The 1986 attack in Libya and the 1993 attack on Iraq symbolized for the military establishment effective use of military power for counterterrorism- limited retaliation with air power, aimed at deterrence.
They don't understand that the allies compromised with each other and with Russia because they sought long-term peace--not short-term gratification--and that such peace requires a level of deterrence that can be achieved only by an international consortium of civilian leaders.
USAT , the NYT and the WP (in its inside story on Kosovo) mention another element of NATO deterrence: the decision to send an unspecified number of troops--possibly including U.S. soldiers--to Macedonia.