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The 12 pages that link to Escalation, each with the reason it gives.

• DeterrenceRelated: Threats can deter an initial action yet also risk widening a confrontation.

• Deterrence theoryRelated: Threatening retaliation can deter action, but miscalculation may instead intensify a conflict.

• WarRelated: Escalation can widen a war beyond its initial participants or objectives.

• Chain of commandRelated: Problems move upward when a subordinate cannot resolve them at their level.

• BrinkmanshipRelated: Brinkmanship deliberately raises a conflict’s stakes to increase pressure for concession.

• Iran–Israel proxy conflictRelated: Proxy attacks can trigger direct exchanges when either side judges restraint too costly.

• Strategic studiesRelated: Strategic choices can raise conflict levels, sometimes beyond either side’s control.

• Technical supportRelated: Unresolved or high-impact cases move to teams with greater access or expertise.

• War studiesRelated: It tracks how limited confrontations can expand into larger wars.

• 2026 Iran warRelated: Retaliation and widening participation can turn individual strikes into a broader war.

• Madman theoryRelated: The threatened move toward greater conflict supplies the danger on which the tactic relies.

• World War IIIRelated: Each side’s response to an attack could widen a limited clash into a major-power war.