Author profile: Will Plowright
Disinterest and Frivolity: Assessing Luttwak’s ‘Give War a Chance’
The ‘give war a chance’ argument is one which argues against disinterested and frivolous motives. Whereas most would likely agree that disinterested interventions are undesirable, Luttwak’s extension of this to include all interventions is inappropriate. The key assumptions of his argument simply do not stand up to logical analysis
