Is Peace Normal?
Military • October 2008 • Views: 362
…The assumption appears to be that peace is normal and war is anomalous, and thus if war is present, someone must be doing something wrong.
But the historical and ethnographic evidence suggests that it is peace that is anomalous, and war that is normal. Even desiring peace, as opposed to desiring victory, is anomalous.
Nothing is more normal in tribal life than hostile attack against one’s neighbors…