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Im not talking about the past 50 years, im takin gabout NOW.
your idea that one side blows a bridge up means a whole division on the other side of that bridge is out of action is first world fighting third world ...like we have now in iraq. if it was a modern force against an equaly modern force ...they would fire a battery of missiles at whoever destroyed the bridge ...
but thats not the kind of wars we fight anymore is it.
Also beforehand equipment was less hard to replace and the soldier could fight without it.
Population control. War kills people, which keeps population numbers down, which could be helpful because the world has too many people. Unfortunately it kills indiscriminately with no real regard to ability or other selective criteria, so this is not entirely useful, and post-war there may be a population bloom again as people are encouraged to procreate.
Technology. Major advances in technology are inspired by and driven by war and its subsidiary companies. Without war the progress of mankind would be severly limited, as a more content society may be less inclined to do any kind of experimental research.
Government. War gives the governments of places something to do, which is quite helpful as it prevents them from fucking up their own country too much by giving the government other things to concentrate on.
Community spirit. Within the nations at war, the feeling of belonging can be increased. Of course, conversly, some people may disagree with the war view and so divisions are created, and obviously there is the greater division between the nations involved on the different sides of the conflict - though this in turn may be removed after the war ends unless there is extreme insurgency.
Surely it is accepted knowledge that we require a limited extinction every so often to keep things moving nicely?
aye if it was some uncontrollable outside influence that was causing the problem
yes, the plague of man kind and its polluting machines.
i bet you think i'm a right hippy, i'm not really though.
I don't know anything about you really, I was simply extending my original line of thought.
Objectively speaking, man shouldn't be on earth so getting rid of some of them can't be that wrong.
Alternatively war could advance us to a state where we can move to other places.
key words, we can all wreck our heads making links between problems and solutions and thinkin theoretically, we'll only hit a brick wall but when you think about it, we're here for some reason or other and i think we should help each other out, that should be our nature but the brain thinks in mysetrious ways.