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Today, most leaders treat war with rhetorical reluctance. War is rarely proposed as a goal in itself, but instead framed as a last resort/self defense, even when it isn't. Is this a recent change, and if so, when did we transition from describing war as something glorious to something undesirable?

by /u/Qwernakus in /r/AskHistorians

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