Modern life doesn't satisfy many of our primal urges.https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/980713157386735616 …
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I guess in the context of how to get men to physically do killing this is valid. in general war has gotten maybe more violent but generally less deadly
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This seems right but I wonder if this is a function of who's doing the warring and with which weapons. I think Iraq/Iran was the last real one?
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I have no numbers handy though about how bad that actually was.
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(I should preface this is mostly speculative, not something I hold strongly [in fact I just thought of it now])
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but if I was coming up with a heuristic I'd probably look at tech level over time (ie, third-world or first-world devastated into third-world conditions -> more deaths)
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germany and russia both lost like 10-15% of pop in WWII, though it's hard to judge how much is infrastructural failure and how much the infamous barbarism of the eastern front
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deadliest post-WWII was the second congo war I think. quick googling they probably lost 10% of their pop, mostly starvation and disease
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but this really isn't all that much compared to like, the thirty years war, which wiped out 20%+ of the holy roman empire
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We should see this reflected in the writings of the various leaders to see if these were factors. Would need to look pre Clausewitz I guess
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