Editing Deterrence theory (section)

=== Tripwires ===
International relations scholars Dan Reiter and Paul Poast have argued that so-called "tripwires" do not deter aggression.<ref name="Tripwire">{{Cite web|date=2021-06-02|title=The Truth About Tripwires: Why Small Force Deployments Do Not Deter Aggression|url=https://tnsr.org/2021/06/the-truth-about-tripwires-why-small-force-deployments-do-not-deter-aggression/|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Texas National Security Review|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602145321/https://tnsr.org/2021/06/the-truth-about-tripwires-why-small-force-deployments-do-not-deter-aggression/|url-status=live}}</ref> Tripwires entail that small forces are deployed abroad with the assumption that an attack on them will trigger a greater deployment of forces.<ref name="Tripwire" /> Dan Altman has argued that tripwires do work to deter aggression, citing the Western deployment of forces to Berlin in 1948–1949 to deter Soviet aggression as a successful example.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Altman|first=Dan|date=2018|title=Advancing without Attacking: The Strategic Game around the Use of Force|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2017.1360074|journal=Security Studies|volume=27|issue=1|pages=58–88|doi=10.1080/09636412.2017.1360074|issn=0963-6412|s2cid=148987375|access-date=2021-06-03|archive-date=2024-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224051617/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2017.1360074|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

A 2022 study by Brian Blankenship and Erik Lin-Greenberg found that high-resolve, low-capability signals (such as tripwires) were not viewed as more reassuring to allies than low-resolve, high-capability alternatives (such as forces stationed offshore). Their study cast doubt on the reassuring value of tripwires.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Blankenship|first1=Brian|last2=Lin-Greenberg|first2=Erik|date=2022|title=Trivial Tripwires?: Military Capabilities and Alliance Reassurance|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2022.2038662|journal=Security Studies|volume=31|pages=92–117|doi=10.1080/09636412.2022.2038662|s2cid=247040733|issn=0963-6412|access-date=2022-02-21|archive-date=2024-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224051620/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2022.2038662|url-status=live|hdl=1721.1/148673|hdl-access=free}}</ref>