FIGHTING TO A FINISH: THE POLITICS OF WAR TERMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN (BOOK).

This article focuses on the book "Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan," by Leon V. Sigal. According to the author, detached calculations of national interest were not always controlling, either of choices or of organizations under the pressure of war. Indeed, war may numb what little sensitivity states normally exhibit outside their borders.