Extensive research demonstrates that war casualties depress incumbent popularity. The present study argues that … warfare either directly affect presidential popularity (e.g., in the Korean War) or their inclusion affects the predicted … political cost of war casualties (e.g., in the Korean and Iraq/Afghanistan Wars). Interestingly, the adverse effect of war …

Conventional wisdom holds that war casualties depress incumbent popularity. We argue that the strength and even the …

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. We consider experimentally when members of victorious …

outside enemy, brothers in arms may already anticipate future internal conflict about dividing the spoils of winning; however …, this subsequent internal conflict does not discourage alliance members from expending much effort in the contest against …