How many wars are taking place right now?Īt the beginning of 2003 there were 30 wars going on around the world. Of the world's 20 largest militaries, 14 are in developing nations. India has 1.3 million, North Korea 1 million, and Russia 900,000. China has the world's largest, with 2.4 million. The combined armed forces of the world have 21.3 million people. How many people around the world serve in the military? The reduced birthrate during World War II is estimated to have caused a population deficit of more than 20 million people. War has several other effects on population, including decreasing the birthrate by taking men away from their wives. Estimates for the total number killed in wars throughout all of human history range from 150 million to 1 billion. Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.Īt least 108 million people were killed in wars in the twentieth century. War is defined as an active conflict that has claimed more than 1,000 lives. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity. What will happen to my body after I die?.What are the long-term consequences of combat stress?.
What could happen to me in a nuclear attack?.What is the most painful way to get wounded?.What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war?.Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies.
military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical - and fascinating - lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants.
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