Individually, or collectively, they will not always bring war to an end. They do not necessarily cause termination. But they do generally make it easier for such to occur. Wars will end if and only if a new balance of powers is determined . This determination is helped by opposing domestic interests, mutual expectations of outcomes, shift in military power, and ideological devaluation.
War is a process of physical and psychological negotiation in a situation of extreme uncertainty.
War will end when the process that is the balancing of powers clarifies, unambiguously, a new balance of powers. Thus, the accumulated number of causalities is not a good indicator of wars end. The end of war is situational, the outcome of balancing powers between adversaries. But as a process, it does have the common accelerators mentioned. For full reference to the book and the list of its contents in hypertext, click book .