When the previous Surgeon-General, Sir Cameron Moffat, invited me to give this lecture, I had just finished writing a book about the development of the armed • forces of the major military nations in the 20th century, and in doing so had become more aware of the great changes that have occurred during this century in attitudes to death, injury, disease and war. At the beginning of the century, ...

Abstract This article investigates curious parallels in the development of thinking on war and peace Catholic Church German Green Party. Like Catholicism, Greens started as an overwhelmingly pacifist movement. However, similarly to Catholicism after it became state religion Rome, began support military action late 1990s when they first held political power. While until 2005 could be categorized...

In every period, an aggressive country seeks concessions from a non-aggressive country with private information about their cost. The aggressive country can force concessions via war, and both countries suffer from limited commitment. We characterize the efficient sequential equilibria. We show that war is necessary to sustain peace and that temporary wars can emerge because of the coarseness o...