ZombiFrancis, 2 years ago

Human history is not really a constant war, but that is how Americans have been taught history: as a sequence of wars.

What’s relatively new are the concept of mass conscription, economic warfare, and total war. The ability to enact war and destruction on a global and constant level is new. The brief cessations in conflict aren’t peace, you’re right, but it is also a newer concept that we are constantly in a forever war.