Costly Calculations

Gartner and Segura consider the costs of war both human and political by examining the consequences of foreign combat on domestic politics. The personal costs of war the military war dead and injured are the most salient measure of war costs generally and the primary instrument through which war affects domestic politics. The authors posit a general framework for understanding war initiation war policy and war termination in democratic polities and the role that citizens and their deaths thr...See More