None of that really applies, although my work touches on a couple of these tangentially. I am trying to look at what type of war the U.S. is likely to be involved in future based not on military threat but on domestic political preference -- what type of war will the politician's prefer to fight (versus when will they prefer concessions or some other form of settlement). It looks pretty much at the influence being a democracy has on these decisions, although it looks briefly at what other aspects of war democracy has an impact on (efficiency in battle, soldier morale, economic or technological advantages).Originally Posted by Surferbeetle
The book "Democracies and War" is primarily a statistical analysis using the Correlates of War and the Polity III databases, as well as the HERO/CAA battle database to validate its propositions. It really doesn't do a lot of specific case study analysis.
The book finds that technology does not correlate to victory in battle, at least not as far as a democracy is concerned. Likewise, it finds that the economic advantage usually associated with a free market system is not the key to victory either.
Trying to avoid looking at it from this perspective. Want to concentrate on the democratic state, not the aspects of the non-democratic one. Again, looking to see what type of war US politicians are most likely to get involved in based on the nature of democratic government.
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