STEPHEN J. CIMBALA is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Penn State University (Delaware County) and has contributed to the literature on international security, defense studies, and nuclear arms control for more than twenty years. He serves on the editorial board of various professional journals and as a consultant to the U.S. goverment on arms control. He is the author or editor of 18 earlier Greenwood Press or Praeger Publishers titles, including, most recently, The Past and Future of Nuclear Deterrence.

• IntroductionCase One: Friction in Irrelevant and Inflexible War PlansCase Two: Friction in Nuclear Crisis ManagementCase Three: Failure Amid Success: Desert Storm and FrictionCase Four: Small Wars, Faux Wars and Peace Operations: Sources of FrictionCase Five: Deterrence and FrictionCase Six: Mass Destruction and Information Warfare: Friction in CollisionConclusion

STEPHEN J. CIMBALA is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Penn State University (Delaware County) and has contributed to the literature on international security, defense studies, and nuclear arms control for more than twenty years. He serves on the editorial board of various professional journals and as a consultant to the U.S. goverment on arms control. He is the author or editor of 18 earlier Greenwood Press or Praeger Publishers titles, including, most recently, The Past and Future of Nuclear Deterrence.

• IntroductionCase One: Friction in Irrelevant and Inflexible War PlansCase Two: Friction in Nuclear Crisis ManagementCase Three: Failure Amid Success: Desert Storm and FrictionCase Four: Small Wars, Faux Wars and Peace Operations: Sources of FrictionCase Five: Deterrence and FrictionCase Six: Mass Destruction and Information Warfare: Friction in CollisionConclusion

STEPHEN J. CIMBALA is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Penn State University (Delaware County) and has contributed to the literature on international security, defense studies, and nuclear arms control for more than twenty years. He serves on the editorial board of various professional journals and as a consultant to the U.S. goverment on arms control. He is the author or editor of 18 earlier Greenwood Press or Praeger Publishers titles, including, most recently, The Past and Future of Nuclear Deterrence.

• IntroductionCase One: Friction in Irrelevant and Inflexible War PlansCase Two: Friction in Nuclear Crisis ManagementCase Three: Failure Amid Success: Desert Storm and FrictionCase Four: Small Wars, Faux Wars and Peace Operations: Sources of FrictionCase Five: Deterrence and FrictionCase Six: Mass Destruction and Information Warfare: Friction in CollisionConclusion