It took years after 9/11 for policy makers to realize they could draw on cold-war-style thinking and skulduggery to protect America from its new global enemies. Cold war deterrence theory, which relied on containment, intimidation and the sowing of doubt to keep a tense nuclear peace with the Soviet Union, has in the decade since 9/11 been updated and expanded to offer new and effective methods to help keep stateless terrorist cells at bay.
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