Quote Originally Posted by Parsifal View Post
Yep. That's why history is destined to repeat itself.

WWII
korea
Vietnam
Iraq
Iraq II
etc....
...and some of these citations, the ones with the word "wars" in them contain descriptions of dozens to scores of conflicts. These do not include the covert wars like the one the U.S. is engaged in within Pakistan.

2.1 Colonial wars (1620–1774)
2.2 War of Independence (1775–1783)
2.3 Early national period (1783–1815)
2.4 Continental expansion (1816–1860)
2.5 American Civil War (1861–1865)
2.6 Post-Civil War era (1865–1917)
2.6.1 Indian Wars (1865–1870)
2.6.2 Spanish-American War (1898)
2.7 Modernization
2.7.1 Banana Wars (1898-1935)
2.8 World War I (1917–1918)
2.8.1 Russian Revolution
2.8.2 Neutrality Acts
2.9 World War II (1939–1945)
2.10 Cold War (1945–1991)
2.10.1 Postwar Military Reorganization (1947)
2.10.2 Korean War
2.10.3 Lebanon crisis of 1958
2.10.4 Dominican Intervention
2.10.5 Vietnam War
2.10.6 Tehran hostage rescue
2.10.7 Grenada
2.10.8 Beirut
2.10.9 Panama
2.11 Post-Cold War era (1991–2001)
2.11.1 Persian Gulf War
2.11.2 Somalia
2.11.3 Yugoslavia
2.12 War on Terrorism (2001–present)
2.12.1 Afghanistan
2.12.2 Philippines
2.12.3 Iraq

To my mind, it's no wonder if we can't remember them all, including barely remembering the significant ones. We've normalized warfare. It's the new status quo.

Taking a look at that list and the sublists buried under that I can't help but wonder if we've become or even always been a warfare state. Opinions?

LF