I rather intensely disagree. Big armies need to be used, and the social dislocation of war vastly outweighs the often meager benefits. Massive amounts of propag

I rather intensely disagree. Big armies need to be used, and the social dislocation of war vastly outweighs the often meager benefits. Massive amounts of propaganda hide the problems, and there's a huge consumption of resources that could be put to better use. Teaching people to suspend their natural inclination to kill and getting them to do it on command is something that's easily converted to organized crime. Gwynne Dyer is a good read - his basic thesis is that militarism is essentially the root of organized crime, and has been since Roman times: http://www.gwynnedyer.com/ http://www.gwynnedyer.com/