deterrence

Roske’s sentence, prosecutors told the court, needed to send a message of deterrence to “all those who would plan to employ violence to achieve ideological ends, such as killing judges to change a judicial outcome.”

Rejecting Beijing’s Taiwan independence narrative is a key to deterrence, the people said, as doing so would deny China a potential pretext for conflict that mirrors Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Israelis told themselves a story about how each provocation didn’t erode deterrence.

To patriots, these killings were deterrence; to loyalists, they were murder.

Beijing is not only strengthening deterrence, but is also creating a "second strike capability," he says - a country's ability to launch a retaliatory strike if attacked.