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From Street Fights to World Wars: What Gang Violence Can Teach Us about Conflict

Irregular Warfare Podcast

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Why We Don't Fight

Kenny Blatman's new book is an attempt to take all of social science basically since Thucydides and say, okay, what do we know? He says the idea that we don't fight because it's just so ruinous and costly is a nice lens to look at conflict. "There's a million reasons for war ... but there's certain logics," he says.

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