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To what extent can high resolve compensate for relatively low capability, and vice versa? This article aims to contribute to the literature on coercive use of force by reintroducing a neglected but significantly important variable, the feasibility of punishment. As military and political feasibility to follow through on the threat is a necessary condition for making a credible threat, threat strategy should fail however resolved the threatener may be if the feasibility of punishment is low. Process-tracing is applied to test this feasibility hypothesis against cases of the 1905 First Moroccan Crisis and the 1936 Rhineland Crisis.