Typically, this can entail proxy wars and other kinds of sparring over contested areas, as has recently been the case in Syria, the Baltic, and the South China Sea.
As such, it offered few useful lessons for the management of subsequent crises, which usually entailed civil wars fuelled by the internal collapse of fragile states.
Preventive war entails other costs as well.
Wars entail violence between whole populations.
Suppose, as is likely, their action entails a continuing war with Egypt.
With the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, some have called for the re-institution of the draft, not only to raise the number of troops, but also to make more Americans aware of what exactly war entails.
This has an effect similar to starting late, since recovery from war entails building a stock of capital that will, other things being equal, embody the most advanced technology and therefore be more productive and allow faster growth.
Even the death and destruction of Palestinian life that the war entailed has not stopped the rockets - yesterday militants fired a long-range rocket at the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
The analogy isn't subtle — it isn't meant to be — and its facility and sensationalism are symptomatic of the book's prevailing emotionalism, which too often stands in the way of sustained social critique and of the patient moral and political analysis required to unravel the convoluted network of courage, shame, honor, obligation and betrayal that war entails.
The notion of Zambada as a kind of Mexican Whitey Bulger, allowed to operate with impunity in exchange for passing along bits of information about his enemies, has a certain intuitive appeal — and no one could deny that the drug war entails plenty of devil's bargains.
