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What remained was the hard question of how deterrence could be effective when the adversary was a loose transnational network.
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.
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.
Now let's apply the same reasoning to criminal deterrence.
Defense, they argue, rests on deterrence, which rests on credibility in threatening the use of force, which rests on the use of force when challenged.