Podcast by The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College
History
Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War
How do armies fight and what makes them victorious on the modern battlefield? In Divided Armies, Jason Lyall challenges long-standing answers to this classic question by linking the fate of armies to their levels of inequality. Introducing the concept of military inequality, Lyall demonstrates how a state’s prewar choices about the citizenship status of ethnic groups within its population determine subsequent battlefield performance. […Learn More]