This thing! Sanctions have their uses (mostly actually as a diplomatic tool for bloc-building, I'd argue), but as a means of suasion, they really only work on issues an adversary considers relatively unimportant. https://twitter.com/EmmaMAshford/status/1346168731362349058 …
Beaufre isn't thinking about a vague sense of international goodwill. He's recognizing that the freedom to act inside of the 'balance of terror' (to use Wohlstetter's term) is conditioned by predictability and perception.
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To put it very briefly, the unacceptability of total conflict in the nuclear age creates the need for indirect approaches in strategy. The freedom to implement those indirect approaches without triggering unacceptable levels of conflict can be manipulated.
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So some actions (what Beaufre calls 'exterior maneuvers') are essentially conditioning actions designed not to effect an adversary but to alter the window of freedom of action, either increasing your scope for activity or decreasing theirs.
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