Why We Fight: Martin van Creveld's 'The Culture of War'

?We might remember also that some of the great slaughters of the 20th century ? Stalin's Great Terror, which took more than 20 million lives, Mao's various leaps and revolutions that killed well in excess of 50 million, or Hitler's death factories that systemically eliminated an estimated 11 million ? were killing fields apart from the formal battlefield.? Perhaps the love of war is only a symptom of the overarching problem?humanity's acquiescence to the growth of State power.