Our modern weapons are far more destructive, but our propensity for violence and war seems to be an invariant across the millennia.
Our modern weapons are far more destructive, but our propensity for violence and war seems to be an invariant across the millennia.
War… war never changes.
Well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
From 1935. And he was not the first one to point that out either.
I actually think that thanks to the internet, we expose many more criminal build ups towards warfare nowadays than before.
Eisenhower's farewell speech [1] is also basically prophetic, which is quite unfortunate in that they were all warnings of things to vigilantly avoid.
[1] - https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp