For a military conflict to cease, according to this week's New Statesman, one of three factors must be in play:
(a) superiority must be so overwhelming on one side for the other side to decide that it's fruitless to continue;
(b) both combatants achieve rough parity and know they cannot achieve a breakthrough;
(c) outsiders exert such pressure for a resolution that the warring parties are unable to resist.
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