This should act as a deterrence.

这应当作为一种威慑！

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The other benefit is deterrence. "It will save time of fighting and will deter in many cases a potential enemy from really launching an attack."

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Where does long-range aerial refueling come into the strategic requirements of what is, primarily, a deterrence force?

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And has all of this prosecutorial zeal served as a deterrence?

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Chertoff goes on to suggest obliquely that demonstrating retaliatory capability in this way might be one method of deriving a deterrence function from US technical superiority in this field.

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