0 the use of a country's military power to persuade other countries to do something, rather than the use of cultural or economic influence:
Hard power is when people use the carrots and sticks of economic and military might to make others follow their will.
To show too much of one's 'hard power' is to run the risk of ruining one's 'soft power'.
We live in a world in which sort power is vital—perhaps more important than hard power.
Influence is less about the hard power of force than the soft power of ideas and example.
The emergence of netpolitik and its interaction with realpolitik are related but not limited to that of soft power, and its interaction with hard power.
Both groups employ tools of hard power in their offensives.
Use softness as hard power, and if applied successfully, true power comes naturally.
Others have synthesized soft and hard power, including through the field of smart power.
