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In International Relations literature, much attention has been given to how a regime affects battlefield effectiveness and strategic decisionmaking. These efforts seek to explain statistical findings that democracies have won most of the wars in which they were engaged. Those called “triumphalists” argue that democracies have better strategists and war-fighting machines.1 Dan Reiter and Allan C. Stam, Democracies at War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002).
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Their critics are “realists” who hold that regime type does not matter.
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