> There are no barbarians at the gates, they have all been (mostly) civilized.
We still have the same "barbarians" as we always had. For the last two decades we just happened to be in a little better relations with them.
There is currently a war in progress in Libya in which one side is supported by the European forces. In 2008 Russian army entered parts of Georgia, mere 15 years after the Red Army was pulled from Eastern Europe.
Nothing changed. It never does.
> I think the kind of large scale war you talk about is permanently over
I agree that large-scale warfare is currently not very likely but I don't think it was ever that common as the twentieth century had led us to believe.
We still have the same "barbarians" as we always had. For the last two decades we just happened to be in a little better relations with them.
There is currently a war in progress in Libya in which one side is supported by the European forces. In 2008 Russian army entered parts of Georgia, mere 15 years after the Red Army was pulled from Eastern Europe.
Nothing changed. It never does.
> I think the kind of large scale war you talk about is permanently over
I agree that large-scale warfare is currently not very likely but I don't think it was ever that common as the twentieth century had led us to believe.