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Critical Point of view- "Give war a chance" (Luttwak, Edward. 1999) Introduction In his article "Give war a chance", Luttwak considers the benefits of war and especially the disadvantages of external intervention. He claims that wars have the great virtue of solving political conflicts and leading to peace by exhausting one of the parts. In his opinion, interventions permit combatants to build up their forces in order to prolong struggles. The author also believes that by not allowing nature to follow its course in former Yugoslavia, the level of suffering has been increased and real peace postponed. Moreover, multilateral organizations that pretend to be capable of stopping warfare and protecting civilians from violent repercussions fail to carry out their obligations. They send military-troops to control the area, but they fail themselves in controlling troop degradation, which ends up in dead, mutilated or tortured victims. Humanitarian relief activities are also a smokescreen as the...

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