Today’s terrorists can not match Gavrilo Princip. When the nineteen-year old member of the Black Hand shot the Archduke of Serbia and his wife, he didn’t kill just two royals. He triggered World War I … and more than 37 million causalities.
Of course, it wasn’t all Princip’s doing — the world was primed for war. The sun was setting on the British Empire. Regional powers had been carving up the globe. Confident in their vast industrial resources, these modern nation states were ready to fight. Its commercial dominance and sea power slipping, Britain could no longer keep the peace. The conditions for conflict were set.
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