Re:Studying the demise of historic civilisations
by zanny on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:54AM
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Thats the thing though, generations didn't serve in Afghanistan or Iraq. Even if you counted the some ~3 million service members engaged in those wars over their duration of the ~70 million Americans between 25 and 45 as all being in that age group thats 4% of those generations participating in the wars.
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Re:Studying the demise of historic civilisations
by bsanr on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:55PM
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The power of past major war to avert the inclination towards future major war doesn't lie just in the experiences of veterans, but in that of the people connected to them, and of the people who are informed of their experiences through media, as well as that of people who have to live through the socioeconomic fallout of past wars. There are plenty of us around.