Wilkinson (2001) Points to Several Risks of Adopting a War

question 19

Multiple Choice

Wilkinson (2001) points to several risks of adopting a war like approach. Which of the following is not one of those risks?

• A) Danger that military response could provoke wider conflict involving diminished focus on relevant terrorist group in favor of broader multistate strategy
• B) Danger that the death of innocent civilians will diminish international sympathy for the victim state and shift the moral high ground away from that state
• C) Danger that military action will give rise to expectation of a total failure of defeat of terrorism
• D) Probability of death or injury of members of the civilian population given the lethality of modern weaponry and firepower

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