Sunday, June 25, 2017

Is It No Longer Possible For Any Country To Win A War?

Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) are driven past the stand with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other high ranking officials during a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of country's founding father Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Yuval Noah Harari, Time: Why It’s No Longer Possible for Any Country to Win a War

The last few decades have been the most peaceful era in human history. For the first time ever, fewer people die today from human violence than from traffic accidents, obesity or even suicide. Whereas in early agricultural societies human violence caused up to 15% of all human deaths, and in the twentieth century it caused 5%, today it is responsible for only about 1%. Yet the international climate is rapidly deteriorating; warmongering is back in vogue, and military expenditure is ballooning. Both laypeople and experts fear that just as in 1914 the murder of an Austrian archduke sparked the First World War, in 2017 some incident in the Syrian Desert or an unwise move in the Korean Peninsula might ignite a global conflict.

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WNU editor: No country has been willing to get involved in an all-out war against an adversary for decades. But war and conflict is a part of human nature .... and while we may be living in an era of "peace", historically speaking .... these "peaceful times" do not last for a very long time.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

" these "peaceful times" do not last for a very long time. "

Maybe, Maybe not

When a city reaches a certain size, a threshold, it usually turns blue.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

Another example is uranium. He get enough together, a certain threshold, a critical mass, you get an explosion.

If no one can win, because coalitions form against anybody readily, then maybe factions give up and start cooperating.

Maybe.