Came here to say exactly this. A war is essentially a failure mode of the human civilization, when our innate biological ability to divide people into Us and Th

Came here to say exactly this. A war is essentially a failure mode of the human civilization, when our innate biological ability to divide people into Us and Them gets the best of us and enables us to do unspeakable things. Such a failure mode must be recognised as such, but it's use is not to be diluted as an euphemism for solving everyday issues. Millions of people hastily buried in the 20th century would likely disagree with us using this word too lightly..