Why War Never Changes
Angry Planet1 Touko 2023

Why War Never Changes

You may have noticed that we end our show with a snippet of the video game Fallout (my favorite). “War - war never changes.”


What if that’s both true and not true? You have to love a dichotomy. Anyway, we are lucky today to have University of Chicago professor Paul Poast on the show. He looks at foreign policy—war—using statistics to make some sense of it all.


This is a break down of why wars popular on the history channel (World War II, the Civil War) aren’t indicative of how wars are actually fought. The smaller proxy wars the U.S. and Russia have been fighting for the past 30 years are the status-quo, not some new kind of conflict.


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