Canadian military analyst and historian, Gwynne Dyer, sets out in his acclaimed history of war how armed conflict has always been part of human society. He writes that it "permeates all our institutions, our cultures, even our mentality". Yet in the recently revised edition of his book, War: the Lethal Custom, he suggests that despite this, it is possible for us now to eradicate war.

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