In policy sectors, this seems because unlikely as it might be unwise.

Yet a century on, World War I offers a sobering reminder of man’s ability for folly. Whenever we state that war is “inconceivable,” is this a declaration as to what is achievable when you look at the world—or no more than exactly exactly what our minds that are limited conceive? In 1914, few could imagine slaughter on a scale that demanded a new category: globe war. Whenever war finished four years later on, European countries lay in ruins: the kaiser gone, the Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved, the Russian tsar overthrown by the Bolsheviks, France bled for a generation, and England shorn of their youth and treasure. Читать далее →