Hoyt

No. War is a social, cultural construct invented (and revised over time) by men to suit their purposes. (BTW, more civilians than soldiers die in modern wars.) Wars are addictive to certain societies with deep trauma or with embedded ideals of Exceptionalism + Religion. (Sadly, organized religion has contributed to war.) I subscribe to the "Lysistrata" view of how to stop wars -- women simply stop having sex with their men until the war stops.