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Conflict History

Because 'military history' is awful

Jan 21, 2021
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The main problem with ‘military history’ is that the very term implies armies, and navies, and state organization. A better term might be ‘conflict history,’ which covers all forms of human conflict in whole, on a global scale. ‘Conflict history’ includes human conflict for all of time, at any scale. Cooperative aggression is a universal human experienc…

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