More than 300 years ago, Thomas Hobbes wrote that mankind has a perpetual and restless desire for power after power that ends only in death. History proves Hobbes’ dark vision right: Man’s natural condition is not peace but war. Throughout history, the evolution of war — and the tools with which it is waged — has far outpaced the advancement of the peaceful sciences.

From the time a cave man first hit another with a rock, we thought we knew what war was. It was an armed conflict by which one nation or group sought to impose its will on another. But by the beginning of the 20th century, the concept of armed conflict became blurred.

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