If one of the functions of limited war, then, is to pose the deliberate risk of all-out war, in order to intimidate the enemy and to make pursuit of his limited objectives intolerably risky to him, the usual precepts for behavior in limited war need revision.

XREF: This inverts conventional deterrence logic — the deliberate courting of disaster as a strategy parallels 'threat that leaves something to chance' in Schelling's work.

Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, loc. 431