War Weariness : Within The 21st Century & In The Global War On Terror

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Citeable URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/3j3332588

Abstract

By the end of the 2010s, the United States of America had been in several military campaigns in the Global War on Terror. In the past, U.S. interventions often were swift and decisive campaigns and rarely lasted more than five years. This research paper’s main purpose is to publicize attitudes in relation to military and foreign policies within the 21st century. This was accomplished by analyzing two primary variables. This research paper looks into the correlation between military casualties in the War on Terror starting from 2004 to the present. The independent variables of this paper will be military fatalities with both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while the dependent variable will be the support of U.S and its allies in the War on Terror with regard to if they are winning or not. Alongside this, a Fixed Effects model using years as a metric will be used to also analyze the results of this research. President Approval polling is also used as controlling measurement of framing within the U.S. political decision making elites. The results of this research paper indicate that there are significant correlations between approvals by the American public at varying points in time.

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