casualties of war

Effect Measure has a good post on economics of war and casualties

which comes from this research

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I'm skeptical of these sorts of psychological models - an important part of the terrorist strategy is to not have a coherent strategy - but it's certainly a noble effort: Imagine that we had a mathematical formula that could be applied to Israel's enemies to predict their course of action? Prof.…
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