Duterte honoring Marines killed in Marawi on the arrival of their remains in Manila.
The book’s astonishing conclusion: Wars in general have reduced violence, since through wars, nation-states emerged that kept the peace over their subjects, in contrast to the endless, continuous fighting among tribes and even clans in areas where there were no nation-states. “Uncomfortable as the fact is, in the long run war has made the world safer and richer,” Morris wrote. He cited statistics that showed that in the modern era of nation-states, murder rates (including those killed in wars) were one-tenth of the rate found among Stone Age hunter-gatherers.