This paper is the first attempt to investigate the causal relationship between military spending, terrorism, and … indicate that terrorism intensity, rather than the number of terrorist incidents, is the major determinant of military spending … in both short-run and long-run. The study finds unidirectional causality running from terrorism intensity to military …

"Neomercantilist War" which analyses the use of military force to protect a strategically vital economic resource (such as Gulf oil … neomercantilism and the concept of Neomercantilist War do offer a sound explanation of American military involvement in the Gulf … explanation to the American military involvement in the Persian Gulf. Accordingly, this paper also proposes the concept of …

’s ability to provide such protection ultimately rests on its power to wage war. Governments therefore have tended to devote more … resources to war than to anything else. Indeed, prior to the advent of the modern welfare State, they usually spent more on war … than on all other things combined. Governments were essentially war making institutions that did a few other things on the …

medicine in later campaigns and fostered the development of the idea amongst military practitioners that military diseases … used the military system to control, direct, and disseminate the development of medical knowledge …

during Europe’s military revolution. Exploiting a new panel database, we show that warfare was associated with significant …

Recent work on war and the military has addressed two broad questions: Why do states and societies wage war as they do …? And what difference does it make that war is, or has been, waged in that manner? Building on the Clausewitzian focus on … may figure prominently in war and its consequences. Scholarship in this area tends to focus on three broad domains …

In its war of attrition against Ukraine, the Kremlin is counting on outnumbering the enemy over a long period in terms … soldiers and volunteer fighters was stepped up significantly in order to conceal the human costs of war. At the same time, the … for a new round of compulsory mobilisation. However, Russia is not only recruiting for the war against Ukraine; the plan …