Synthesized answer
The author's evidence focuses on how military capabilities, whether real or imagined, are used as bargaining power [Passage 1, Passage 2]. He specifically points to the steps taken by the US during the Berlin and Cuban crises as examples of these capabilities being employed not just for engagement, but as signals to an adversary [Passage 1]. The author also identifies reports from an enemy's own military intelligence as crucial diplomatic communications [Passage 1].
The passages describe the author's focus on military capabilities as bargaining power and illustrate this with historical examples. However, the specific details of the "evidence" beyond these examples, such as direct data or specific findings derived from analyzing the Berlin and Cuban crises, are not provided in these passages.
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From the book
Title: Arms and influence by Thomas C. Schelling Description: Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as the science of victory. Today, however, in our world of nuclear weapons, military power is not so much exercised as threatened. It is, Mr. Schelling says, bargaining power, and the exploitation of this power, for good or evil, to preserve peace or to threaten war, is diplomacy - the diplomacy of violence. The author concentrates in this book on the way in which military capabilites - real or imagined - are used, skillfully or…
hose who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing."--Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities--real or imagined--are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows how Schelling's framework--conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction--still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground. Categories: Political Science Pages:…