Better still may be to have the power to send but not to receive messages: if one can announce his position and state that his transmitter works but not his receiver, saying that he will wait where he is until the other arrives, the latter has no choice. He can make no effective counteroffer, since no counteroffer could be heard.

XREF: This is Schelling's classic doctrine of commitment and the strategic value of disabling one's own options — connects to burning bridges, unilateral disarmament strategies, and bargaining theory.

Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, loc. 152