Librería Samer Atenea
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Kálamo Books
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Librería Elías (Asturias)
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Librería Kolima (Madrid)
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From the Hundred Years’ War to recent US operations in Afghanistan, the decision to end protracted armed conflict ultimately represents a bargain between political and military leaders. This 'civil-military variable' affects the domestic politics of war termination by altering the dynamics of blame attribution. While nobody wants to lose a war, it is also the case nobody wants to be blamed for losing a war. This book shows how the interplay between political and military leadership moderates the extent to which political leadership risks being held culpable, and subsequently punished, for a failed war. Such risk factors into a political leader’s war termination calculus, dictating whether he or she will remain committed to fighting or prove willing to cut the state’s losses and get out.