Challenges to Ending Wars: Civil-Military Disputes Over War Termination and U.S. Public Opinion

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Brief Overview

This paper uses a series of survey experiments to investigate the consequences of U.S. civil-military disputes over war termination for public preferences about continued fighting and approval of presidents overseeing war’s end.

Author

• Patrick Kelly, Stanford University