War. What is it for? Conflict and progress of civilization - from primates to robots. Morris J.

“You want peace,” says the famous Roman proverb, “get ready for war.” Despite the fact that since the confrontation of the Kalgak and Agricolas, the Grampian mountains have passed 2000 years, this proverb, according to the author of the book, remains fair. After analyzing the history of mankind over the past ten thousand years, the historian of Stanford University, Jan Morris, comes to the conclusion that “useful” wars made our world in many ways safer.