The Power and Peril of Cycle Rhetoric in Legitimating and Prolonging Military Intervention

• In Event: Why War Lingers?

Brief Overview

How do policymakers convince the public to support risky military interventions? Cycle rhetoric can be a powerful legitimation tool for interventions that prolongs the initial military operation. I draw on the Korean and Iraq Wars as case studies.

Author

• Drew Hogan, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities