You were one of the earliest to identify the decline ofa violence in war. Your other epigram is from ma dwight the eisenhauer, war is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly. And what the book is basically is a biography of an idea. The idea is that war is really stupid. It didn't what i was impressed with ptichen i did reteet from doomsday.
In this conversation based on his new book, The Stupidity of War, political scientist John Mueller argues that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats — including during the Cold War — have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. With international war in decline, complacency and appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military is scarcely required.