Nukes?
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Nuclear weapons did much more to prevent large scale war than making it illegal. Something about mutually assured destruction.
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is decline of war a statistical error?
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Many reasons. One is that acquiring land & manpower (slaves) no longer economically sensible. War of conquest does not make sense.
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I once browsed briefcase of delegate to German anti-militarist conference ~1908; same people voted war credits 1914
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Perhaps "Democratic Peace Theory"? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory …
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Tell it to the Middle East.
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Maybe in part there are enough people of a certain motivation placated by peace through fear of wealth loss? War is usually desperation now
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I feel people would rather feel victimized by a war. -That dawning peace is bad news. Peace is a bore, there will be war.
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Major powers scaring themselves
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There are several obvious reasons for the decline. But it was not that piece of paper.
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Mainly demographic reasons. Search for Gunnar Heinsohn's 'war index'. He's a genocide researcher.
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Western Birth control? Effectively means the world's only superpower, neither has manpower to burn away, nor scarcity to expand against.
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Just a hypothesis, might be worth comparing such graphs if that's possible. Those 2 would be the main natural dynamics, I'd think.
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What are you talking about? My country has been at war with many countries all my life.
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He was talking about the decline of war, not about a particular country.
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My 2 cents: Nukes, globallisation. You don't go to war with countries you have strong commercial ties with. Increased resources thru technol
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Can't tell - when you RT a bad review, do you like the review, or the book?
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