What that research has shown is not that wars between nondemocracies, or between democracies and nondemocracies, have been frequent; instead, it has demonstrated that, although interstate war is a rare event in general, wars between democracies have been even rarer.
The single biggest reason is the absence of a general war between great states.
Allowing the decision for a general war in Europe between NATO and Russia in 2017 to be made in Warsaw, Riga, Vilnius or Tallin is the modern day equivalent of placing the fate of 1914 Europe in the hands of a radical Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, with potentially similarly tragic results.
However, in both mediation analyses, the general war exposure consisted of all the 52 items in the war events questionnaire.
Consider the influence, in general, of war between humans on the environment and animal populations.
[C16.] Ex-Chairman of Goldman Sachs Assails Spitzer In an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal, John C. Whitehead, the former chairman of Goldman Sachs who now heads the corporation responsible for rebuilding Lower Manhattan, accused Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general, of declaring "war between us" and warning that he would "pay dearly for what you have done".
James B. Ricketts: Artilleryman, fought in the Mexican War and served in the Third Seminole War; a much wounded Union general in the War between the States.
George Wright: Forty years in the Infantry, much of it fighting Indians in the Pacific Northwest; as a Union general during the War between the States, commanded the Pacific coast.
Isaac R. Trimble: Ten years in the Artillery and on Topographical duty, and nearly thirty in railroads mostly in his home State of Maryland; one of the most prominent Confederate generals in the War between the States, but severely wounded and captured in Pickett's charge.
