Nonsense! Have you even studied military history?? Civil war does not result in civil collapse, otherwise troops on both sides would've starved long before they ever began to score victories. It doesn't mean civil collapse now, either. Infrastructure, transportation and food distribution are still critical unless one is deliberately aiming at genocide. People have to be fed, housed and clothed if they are to fight.

We have better technology than 19th c. combattants; they had better technology than 18th c. combattants; who, in their turn, had better technology than 17th c. combattants. Changing technology does not mean changing strategy, tactics, logistics, or even the human intellect. If that were the case, there'd be absolutely no use to studying the the Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, the 100 Years' War, the Punic Wars, or even the Persian Wars at war colleges today, which they do, intensively. There'd be no sense in our continuing regard for military manuals like Sun Tzu's Art of War, because it would simply be a curious relic.

I understand if you're frightened by the prospect of war, but think of it as diplomacy by other means. All it proves is that the combattants are serious enough to press their claims beyond the endless talk, talk, talk-stage of negotiation.

Nonsense! Have you even studied military history?? Civil war does not result in civil collapse, otherwise troops on both sides would've starved long before they ever began to score victories. It doesn't mean civil collapse now, either. Infrastructure, transportation and food distribution are still critical unless one is deliberately aiming at genocide. People have to be fed, housed and clothed if they are to fight.

We have better technology than 19th c. combattants; they had better technology than 18th c. combattants; who, in their turn, had better technology than 17th c. combattants. Changing technology does not mean changing strategy, tactics, logistics, or even the human intellect. If that were the case, there'd be absolutely no use to studying the the Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, the 100 Years' War, the Punic Wars, or even the Persian Wars at war colleges today, which they do, intensively

I understand if you're frightened by the prospect of war, but think of it as diplomacy by other means. All it proves is that the combattants are serious enough to press their claims beyond the endless talk, talk, talk-stage of negotiation.