12:34AM
WPR's The New Rules: Life, Death and the 20th Century

Most people look back upon the 20th century as the deadliest in human history, with scholarly estimates suggesting that close to 200 million people died in all the wars, revolutions, genocides and totalitarian purges of those bloody decades. As a result, we regard the entire century as the age of total war, even though we have not experienced great-power war since 1945. Even more telling, state-based war almost completely disappeared as the century drew to a close, leaving us with primarily civil strife, failed states, and the transnational bad actors they both spawn.
Read the rest here at World Politics Review.
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Reader Comments (6)
This is a major reason why I think that the "Global Zero" movement is not only naive, but may well be immoral in many ways.