Statistically, major wars have become increasingly less common and dying in a war has been an increasingly less likely cause of death. That can be difficult to

Statistically, major wars have become increasingly less common and dying in a war has been an increasingly less likely cause of death. That can be difficult to see because war still exists and is still gruesome and in the 21st century it gets in your face in a way that is hard to ignore, but war is still growing less common.