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Alliance politics will remain a persistent feature of international affairs, but, as this book argues, that is because military alliances operate in ways that are often surprising, counterintuitive, and difficult to understand. To see why, consider the following standard claims that scholars and practitioners often make regarding how alliances function, or should function, from when these arrangements are first negotiated to when they meet their eventual demise. In outlining, in the discussion below, what those pieces of conventional wisdom are and why they are problematic, I offer a preview of the argument that each chapter in this book advances.