TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weisiger,Alex
TI  - Logics of War: Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts
T2  - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series
SN  - 9780801468179
AV  - JZ6385 
U1  - 355.02 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - War -- Causes
KW  - Limited war
KW  - Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)
KW  - Total war
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Logics of War -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Wars -- 2. Research Strategy and Statistical Tests -- 3. War to the Death in Paraguay -- 4. World War II: German Expansion and Allied Response -- 5. Additional Commitment Problem Cases: The Crimean, Pacific, and Iran-Iraq Wars -- 6. Short Wars of Optimism: Persian Gulf and Anglo-Iranian -- 7. The Limits on Leaders: The Falklands War and the Franco-Turkish War -- Conclusion: Recapitulations, Implications, and Prognostications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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
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