Thursday, January 5, 2012

Are Major Wars A Thing Of The Past?


Have We Seen the End of Major Armed Conflicts? -- Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Gunpowder and Lead

During my radio interview today on Jon Justice’s show, Jon asked an interesting question. “Are we in a place in history right now,” he said, “where we won’t see a conflict on a massive scale because of how developed the nations are? Any type of major event would bring so many factions into it that we almost couldn’t get out. I just can’t envision us getting into another World War-type scenario.”

It was an interesting question — and a fair one that will certainly be asked again in an era of declining defense budgets — but I had to answer with a rather emphatic no.

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My Comment: Wars .... major wars .... have been a part of human nature since the beginning. Is human nature changing .... hmmm .... I doubt it.

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