Paradoxes of war : on the art of national self-entrapment
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Paradoxes of war : on the art of national self-entrapment
（Studies in international conflict, v. 3）
Unwin Hyman, 1990
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Note
Bibliography: p. [335]-349
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book adresses two fundamental questions about the nature of war: why reasonable people sometimes lead their nations into self-made traps of destructive proportions and why nations finding themselves in a deep mess of their own doing tend to deepen their troubles and make it harder for themselves to escape those traps. The study is organized in three parts around the various stages of war. The first focuses on the causes of war; the second on the processes of war management; and the third examines those short and long term implications of war which turn on its head the notion of war as an instrument of policy.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Paradoxical causes of war: the para bellum paradox
- the threat of stability and the stability of threats - the paradox of successful deterrence
- wars that nobody wanted and everybody tried to prevent - the paradox of crisis escalation. Part 2 Paradoxes of war management: the paradox of attrition
- the paradox of surprise
- the ally's paradox. Part 3 Paradoxical consequences of war: the paradox of power and war outcomes
- phyrric victories, or nothing fails like success
- loser's paradoxes - the view from the pit
- paradoxical lessons from paradoxical wars.
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