effacing the barrier between war and politics.I first compare the Army's capstone doctrine of 1993, 2001, and 2008 to show that …

Sacred time has shaped military effectiveness in modern conflicts, from the American Revolution, through both World … Wars, the Vietnam War, and the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, to the ongoing insurgency in Iraq. At times, initiators of conflict … and insurgent attacks in contemporary Iraq. I then examine testimonies from the 1973 Arab-Israeli War to show that …

income inequality with people's willingness to fight for their country with the help of individual-level data from the World … of incomes becomes more unequal. Moreover, these effects exist only for citizens likely to face the risk of conscription … in times of war – i.e., men …

policymakers have turned to the History in response to the two world wars, the Cold War, the Gulf War, the more recent Iraq War and …In 2005, Joseph Lane Jr. remarked: “Whenever we get a new war, we get a new Thucydides.” The fact that scholars and … the “war on terror” demonstrates the extent to which Thucydides functions as a mirror for society during hard times. But …

Is systematically targeting an adversary's civilians in war an effective military strategy? This paper assesses the … historical record of civilian victimization and interstate war outcomes from 1816 to 2003. We begin by disaggregating civilian … declined over time. Brief case studies of the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and British counterinsurgency …

candidate explanations for German behavior before the world wars: the preventive war hypothesis and the Innenpolitik hypothesis …. This reevaluation of German motives prior to the world wars casts doubt on the broader preventive war literature insofar as …The prevailing consensus in the historical community is that Germany provoked both of the twentieth century world wars …