How Does the Offense-Defense Balance Scale?

Garfinkel, B., & Dafoe, A. (2019). How Does the Offense-Defense Balance Scale?. Journal of Strategic Studies, 42(6), 736-763.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2019

DOI

10.1080/01402390.2019.1631810

Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2019.1631810

Cited from

environmental_climate

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Managed Retreat
  • The pattern reveals a sharp cost-curve principle: defense cost typically rises non-linearly with the gap between threat and capability, while withdrawal cost has a one-time shape.

    This sourceAnalyzes how the cost of defending a position scales with the threat-capability gap, supporting the rising-cost-of-defense premise behind a withdrawal decision.

Verification

This reference passed the adversarial substantiation pipeline: it was checked to exist and to support the claim it is attached to. See how references were verified.

Registry ID ref:afa61fed1332 · see in the full table