"War never changes." Or does it? Perhaps the most iconic phrase of the Fallout video game fame is not something we should discredit simply because it has been used in a game, quite the contrary – it’s an issue everyone should have a think about.
One would think that after everything the humanity has been through the word "war" would be long forgotten. The two world wars in the last century , the Mongol conquests in the thirteenth and fourteenth century, the Thirty Years‘ War in the first half of the seventeenth century – all had death toll in millions. And yet, when you look at the world today you can’t but notice it’s still at war. It’s constantly at war. It always has been. And most likely will be for at least decades to come. The question is why?
Because it’s in the human nature, how humans were "programmed", if you will: to keep desiring more and more, even if we don’t necessarily need more. That naturally leads to conflicts which then escalate to all-out wars. This problem is only going to get worse as we start running out of resources such as oil and coal.
Just like Albert Einstein once said: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." For the instruments of war may change, however the war, as in war being a part of human nature, never does – since people never do.
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