> then reverting to bows and arrows ... would bring us less extensive conflicts. Most of the article is dubious, but this is flat out wrong. The Mongols, with

> then reverting to bows and arrows ... would bring us less extensive conflicts. Most of the article is dubious, but this is flat out wrong. The Mongols, with just their bows and arrows, killed tens of millions of Chinese, Middle Easterners, and Europeans. They conquered like half the world, and killed more people than died in WW2. "less extensive conflict" indeed.