We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons, most of today's wars are low-intensity wars fought with light weapons, small arms, often in very poor countries, they are extremely brutal but they don't kill that many people.
"Andrew Mack" was an United States/American businessman and politician who, among other things, co-founded the Detroit Free Press, served as List of mayors of Detroit/mayor of Detroit, Michigan, and whose land holdings became a portion of the town of Marysville, Michigan/Marysville.
More Andrew Mack on Wikipedia.Warfare in the 21st century is far less deadly than it was half a century ago. The wars that dominated the headlines of the 1990s were real - and brutal - enough. But the global media have largely ignored the 100-odd conflicts that have quietly ended since 1988. During this period, more wars stopped than started.
Until the 1990s, the international community did little to stop wars. Now it does lots.
We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons.
By 2002, it was 600 ? an extraordinary change.
Among the myths we look at and explode are the idea that international terrorism is the greatest threat to global security. In face, international terrorism kills only a tiny number of people each year compared to the number killed in wars.
As is often the case with criminal violence, there is a huge disjuncture between what people believe is the case and what is actually the case.
But you see a major increase in the deadliness of the attacks and a major increase in attacks that kill large numbers of people.
We think the United Nations, despite the many failures, has done in many ways an extraordinary job ... very often with inadequate resources, inappropriate mandates, and with horrible politics in the council, ... If the politics were less horrible, the resources more adequate ... the U.N. could do a much better job.
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