Anybody know of a good book about the real reasons for various wars?

[TexLaProgressive]

2. The classic, Carl von Clausewitz's "On War"

Richard Overy“ “Why War”and Chris Blattman’s “WhyWe Fight”and Stephen Van Evera‘s “Causesof War” would be a good start.

My opinion is that the root cause of every war is economic.Even those that overtly appear to be religious such as the Crusades. I think that the big issue was the tolls and tributes that had to be paid crossing Islamic lands making the price of black pepper for instance cost ounce for ounce the same as gold.

The purported Northern Ireland troubleswas more that the Protestants owned everything of value from land to manufacturing leaving the native Irish bearly able to scrape a living. The Japanese were cut off by an embargo of oil in August 1, 1941, causing the Japanese to attempt a preemptive strike to disable the US Pacific Fleet.

Yes, this is a simplified understanding of the causes of wars, but the root, the radical is at it’s purest, simple.