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counterforce: a standalone construct

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Strategic studies

nuclear targeting aimed at an adversary's weapons and forces rather than its cities, argued to grow more feasible as accuracy and sensing improve.

In strategic studies, counterforce refers to nuclear targeting aimed at an adversary's weapons and forces rather than its cities, argued to grow more feasible as accuracy and sensing improve. This meaning comes from Lieber (2017) in International Security.[1]

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References

Lieber, K. A., & Press, D. G. (2017). The New Era of Counterforce: Technological Change and the Future of Nuclear Deterrence. International Security, 41(4), 9-49. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00273

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