War! What Is It Good For? : Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots (Paperback)

from dcunning11235

This was a very intriguing book -an intriguing argument- that is well put together and argued. It is a disturbing thought that wars, of a certain kind anyway, might be ultimately useful and ultimately responsible for modern societies with all their goods. It isn't a theory that can, in my mind, e...

from booktsunami

Ian Morris has tackled a taboo subject here. "Everybody" seems to agree that war is; undesirable, causes immense suffering, disruption of societies, destruction of lives, families and property....in fact, there are no winners and everyone loses in a war. But Morris steps back from the picture of ...

from StefBlommaert

Outstanding and thought provoking

from jcbrunner

I ended my review of Ian Morris' last and highly readable book with a wish in 2012 "One can only hope that his next book will not follow Niall Ferguson down the conservative rabbit hole." Unfortunately, Morris burrowed even deeper, to a depth actually that should be uncomfortable to any ethical h...

from dcunning11235

This was a very intriguing book -an intriguing argument- that is well put together and argued. It is a disturbing thought that wars, of a certain kind anyway, might be ultimately useful and ultimately responsible for modern societies with all their goods. It isn't a theory that can, in my mind, e...