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[QUOTE=Saxon;42816015]I doubt will see any massive scale wars waged on the level on World War 2 or 1 in our life time. These gentlemen are the last of there kind.[/QUOTE] People having been saying the last big war of their generation was THE last war for a while. I don't like it, but I don't think there will ever be a last war unless it's one that more or less wipes us all.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;42826012]The middle east overshadows both WWI and WWII by a long shot. It's been in a perpetual clusterfuck for the past 5,000+ years. Religious wars, fiefdom wars, raiders, famine, ethnic cleansing, dictatorships, etc. far outstrips both of the world wars in death toll, economic and historical damage.[/QUOTE] Europe and pretty much anywhere else pre-1900 has been the same way. Only thing special about the middle east and north Africa is that they've been doing it for longer. Saying that the middle east overshadows WWII is a massive exaggeration. WWII is what the name implies, a world war. It literally encompassed the entire world, everywhere from Africa to Asia. It was a war where as many as 100 million people, or around 2.5% of the total world population, was wiped off the face of the earth. A war where 4,500,000 people perish in a single siege. A war where over 1,500,000 people die in a single battle. A war where with a single bomb dropped, 150,000 people were annihilated completely. WWII has left an immeasurably large stain on human history. 70+ years after the war ended we're still finding unexploded ordnance, caches of valuables stolen by the Nazis, preserved and intact corpses, vehicles, and wartime writings and propaganda are still being published and are in circulation. Not to mention there were hundreds of advancements made during the war that we use in everyday life; everything from the microwave to the jet engine. There will has never been a war of this scale that has had such an effect on human history and there probably never will be another like it.
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