Conventional Attrition and Battle Termination Criteria. A Study of War Termination.

Abstract

This study (1) distinguishes among, and briefly describes the terminations of, battles, campaigns, and wars; (2) discusses concepts and terminology for war termination; (3) presents three case studies of terminations of short, post-1945 wars (4) presents a survey of the literature on war termination; and (5) presents in matrix form data on 13 20th Century war terminations. The study does not find any significant association between casualty levels and war termination.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA148773

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  • G. M. Hammerman

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  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
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  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Agreements
  • American Revolution
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  • Civil War
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  • Military Organizations
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  • National Politics
  • National Security
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  • Vietnam War
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