Thread: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 62 years

Originally Posted by Dwarven Pirate

This is insane.

Of course it is, but its also counter-intuitive.

People keep thinking they can legalize, classify, ancompartmentalize war and thus have and fight good nealry bloodless conflicts. It doesn't work, it can't work ever. The side that percieves that it is the one doing the losing will resort to any tactic to "win" limited only by what they think the enemy will do.

If you go into a war fully committed to win no matter the cost then historically your enemies don't really want to fight. WW1 the obvious excpetion was an accident of a multi-polar world. More importantly is the Cold War, the Treaty of Veinna, Post war Koreas, PRC/Taiwan, Pakistan-India post nuclear era etc the cost of war has been made clear so no one wants to fight.