Category: brinksmanship

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Origins of the term “brinkmanship” (aka “brinksmanship”)…

3 years ago
Robert Deis

I recently noticed a headline for an Associated Press story about North Korea that was interesting from a word and quotation history perspective. It said:      “North Korean missile tests…