(April 5, 2013 at 12:25 pm)junkyardboy Wrote: the history of man is war
they just keep getting bigger and more efficient.
If by efficient you mean more precise, then, yes. Are you honestly saying that the Vietnam War, and the Soviet Afghan War, and the dozens of other wars since WWII, have been bigger and more violent than the last? Because that's clearly what you meant. And it's clearly bullshit.
The history of man is conquest and dominion. Thanks to technology, that can mean cultural and economic domination having far more power than military domination. Nobody fucks with the US not because we have tons of military personnel because we don't. We have, however, the most technologically advanced war machine, and more importantly, the richest single economy. These are two HUGE factors in deterring war, not causing it.