Arms and Influence

“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”—Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review

“An exemplary text on the interplay of national purpose and military force.”—Eric Larrabee, Book Week

“Well worth reading and there will be few who do so that do not find an idea or line of inquiry emerging in their own later thinking that owes its inspiration to Professor Schelling’s lively analysis.”—American Political Science Review

“Of great value especially to people who are relative newcomers to the field. . . . It has, like everything of Schelling’s, some quite novel and original ideas.”—Bernard Brodie