>Maybe, unsurprising to HN, but I believe more in technology's impact than anything else.
Technology is a facilitator for better and more impactful wars. Has always been historically.
>Technology enabled the wars, and probably similarly ended them.
The loss of the role of Europe after WWII (when they couldn't hold the colonies anymore or fight between them for global control) that ended them.
Plus tons of national barriers have been established by then (the break-up of empires and the unification of feudal arrangmenets into countries having brought many wars between populations wanthing their own state and fighting for its borders with neighbors).
The US, on the other hand, which picked up the "top dog" role after WWII, got into countless wars during the Cold War, but it was between them the USSR and their proxies - Europe did not need to apply anymore.
And the US got into all those wars despite the US having the most advanced technology of that era. It wasn't the technology that started/stopped the wars, it was the opportunity they offered (or lack thereof in Europe).
In the next economic vacuum/opportunity we'll see a revamp. We already see it with the current trade wars...
Technology is a facilitator for better and more impactful wars. Has always been historically.
>Technology enabled the wars, and probably similarly ended them.
The loss of the role of Europe after WWII (when they couldn't hold the colonies anymore or fight between them for global control) that ended them.
Plus tons of national barriers have been established by then (the break-up of empires and the unification of feudal arrangmenets into countries having brought many wars between populations wanthing their own state and fighting for its borders with neighbors).
The US, on the other hand, which picked up the "top dog" role after WWII, got into countless wars during the Cold War, but it was between them the USSR and their proxies - Europe did not need to apply anymore.
And the US got into all those wars despite the US having the most advanced technology of that era. It wasn't the technology that started/stopped the wars, it was the opportunity they offered (or lack thereof in Europe).
In the next economic vacuum/opportunity we'll see a revamp. We already see it with the current trade wars...