This essay reminded me of War Before Civilization, which argues that modern technologies like the airplane and the submarine brought back pre-civilizational gen

This essay reminded me of War Before Civilization, which argues that modern technologies like the airplane and the submarine brought back pre-civilizational genocidal war, without clearly defined frontlines, without distinction between civilians and soldiers. I didn't know that Alfred Nobel thought that removing this distinction would bring peace though. I guess he didn't read the book, which was published long after his death. It's main thesis is just that war before civilization was a thing at all, that the archeological evidence for it can be taken at face value, that weapons were not means of exchange and walls were not symbols of unity. It could have been written before the invention of dynamite.