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Traditional security perspective emphasises on compromises to limit the violence by giving the following three choices to the state if its security is threatened:
- to surrender when actually confronted by war, but they will not advertise this as the policy of the country.
- to prevent the other side from attacking by promising to raise the costs of war to an unacceptable level.
- to defend to protect itself when war actually breaks out so as to deny the attacking country its objectives and to turn back or defeat the attacking forces altogether.
Governments may choose to surrender when actually confronted by war, but they will not advertise this as the policy of the country. Hence, the state’s security policy is to prevent a war which is called deterrence and with limiting or heading war called the defence.