brinkman

plural brinkmen · alternative brinksman

1. One who advocates for brinkmanship.

   It compels the 'brinkmen' to realise that, if they seek to make war on the Soviet Union, they cannot count on cooperation from Britain or France, and probably not from Western Germany.

   1958, The Labour Monthly, volume 40, page 18

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   The brinkmen Kennan abhorred were supreme realists, and if "the assumption that state behavior is a fit subject for moral judgment" is baseless, then anything, even the realism of atomic blackmail, would be permissible.

   1970, John W. Coffey, Realist social thought in America: Reinhold Niebuhr and George F. Kennan

   The Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses, but it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East.

   1970, Time, volume 96

plural Brinkmans

1. A surname.