The paradox of power sino american strategic restraint in an age of vulnerability by david c gompert and phillip c saunders published for the center for the study of chinese military affairs institute for national strategic studies by national defense university press washington dc 2011. The second half of the 20th century featured a strategic competition between the united states and the soviet union that competition avoided world war iii in part because decades of arms control negotiations created a mutual understanding that allowed us soviet competition to proceed without armed conflict the first half of the 21st century will be dominated by the relationship between the . The second half of the 20th century featured a strategic competition between the united states and the soviet union that competition avoided world war iii in part because during the 1950s scholars like henry kissinger thomas schelling herman kahn and albert wohlstetter analyzed the fundamental nature of nuclear deterrence decades of arms control negotiations reinforced these early . David c gompert and phillip c saunders paradox of power sino american strategic restraint in an age of vulnerability washington dc national defense university december 2011 excerpt from the executive summary the united states and china each have or will soon have the ability to inflict grave harm upon the other by nuclear attack attacks on satellites or attacks on computer networks. The item paradox of power sino american strategic restraint in an era of vulnerability by david c gompert and phillip c saunders represents a specific individual material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in indiana state library