used to draft servicemen. -- crime ; violence ; military ; two-sample IV ; Vietnam War …

(troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well as mid-war reorganizations of each type, to … estimate the marginal cost of reducing U.S. fatalities in World War II, holding constant mission effectiveness, usage intensity …

A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions … with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war … models of militarized conflicts, yields new theoretical justification for existing empirical findings with respect to war …

War, whether external or internal, large or small, is a costly endeavor. Loss of life, loss of close friends or family …, and the destruction of material possessions all play a part in the costs of war. The purpose of this paper is to capture …

While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental …

of World War II (WW2) service, where the focus has been on the impact of this 'total war' on the broader civilian …

success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the …

, Colorado. These units were repeatedly deployed during the Iraq War, allowing us to measure the effect of arguably exogenous …