The Philosophy of War (1)

Military History Podcast by George Hageman

Mar 24, 200814:01Society & Culture

According to Lawrence Keeley, "90-95% of known societies engage in war". Why? What compels homo sapiens to kill each other? Why do we fight? Part one will describe two hypotheses. War is Rational: Sun Tzu argued that pol...

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