Кучково поле. Война! Для чего она нужна?: Конфликт и прогресс цивилизации — от приматов до роботов

"If you want peace, says the famous Roman adage, prepare for war". Despite the fact that since the opposition of Kalsaka and Agricola from the Grampian mountains it's been 2000 years, this adage is, in the opinion of the author of the book remains valid. After analyzing the history of humanity over the past ten thousand years a historian at Stanford University, Ian Morris comes to the conclusion that "useful" war has made our world in many ways safer.