Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States, in his book Real Peace (1983).
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Perceived gain in war is a special case of perceived gain in coercion more generally. Amongst those who perceive a gain in coercion are people who move, consciously or otherwise, to control institutions, including the meta-jnstitutions that are the mechanisms of deliberate(d) change.
The change required to end expected gain in war is at least so deep as to operationalize rather like a change in human nature.