Why Are Wars Increasingly Difficult to End?
Armed Conflict · · United States
The number of armed conflicts has increased in recent years, and researchers have warned that many wars are lasting longer and have become more difficult to end. We asked five experts if the 21st-century trend of more intractable wars is continuing, and if so, why.Read more below.Dafna H. Rand Senior Fellow at Brookings Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Wars are not ending definitively in the 21st century, and the United States is likely to see the same pattern in Iran. Whereas peace settlements or victory by one side was once the culmination of war, today the more likely scenarios The post Why Are Wars Increasingly Difficult to End? appeared first on War on the Rocks.
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