TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weisiger, Alex
AB  - Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation’s decision to go to war and continue fighting regardless of the costs. He combines sharp statistical analysis of interstate wars over the past two centuries with nine narrative case studies. He examines both well-known conflicts like World War II and the Persian Gulf War, as well as unfamiliar ones such as the 1864–1870 Paraguayan War (or the War of the Triple Alliance), which proportionally caused more deaths than any other war in modern history.
DO  - 10.7591/cornell/9780801451867.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 642713
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 836207133
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Adolf Hitler
KW  - Argentina
KW  - Germany
KW  - Paraguay
KW  - Unconditional surrender
KW  - United States
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/17e69142-4dba-44f6-a811-d7bcf8e6df24/642713.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30789
PB  - Cornell University Press
PP  - Ithaca, NY
PY  - 2013-03-13
SN  - 9780801468179;9780801468162
TI  - Logics of War : Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts
ER  - 
