# Why Are Wars Increasingly Difficult to End?

- Source: War on the Rocks
- Published: 2026-11-04T18:30:43+00:00
- Category: World
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The number of armed conflicts has increased in recent years, and researchers have warned that many wars are lasting longer and have become more difficult to end. We asked five experts if the 21st-century trend of more intractable wars is continuing, and if so, why.Read more below.Dafna H. Rand Senior Fellow at Brookings Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Wars are not ending definitively in t

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