One of the interesting things about that period is the relative lack of discussion immediately after the war compared to what we have now.
To the Administration's critics, that hand-off was a sign of Obama's disregard for what he considered the "dumb war" (compared to the "good war," in Afghanistan).
According to the French military, France has flown about 4,500 flights, or sorties, in the five-month war, compared to more than 5,300 American sorties in roughly the same period.
If we had equivalent coverage of the whole of human history (how many books have been published about the second world war compared to, say, the Mongol conquests of the 13th century?) we would see that all of it has been scarred by mass slaughters, some of them proportionately even worse than the horrors of the past hundred years.
I've heard the Civil War compared to elephants' attraction for American writers, or Moby Dick.
As historian Dan Snow has highlighted, around 12% of the British army's ordinary soldiers were killed during the war compared to 17% of its officers.
I think Chechnya was very extreme as a war, compared to anything that I have seen since.
"I think things happen in cycles, and I think we're very much back to a very similar cycle to the earlier Cold War compared to what some people are calling Cold War 2.0," Dillon explained, comparing what she learned writing this book to the current political situation.
A July 2006 USA Today/Gallup poll found that 83% of the 1,005 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 66% who blamed Israel to some degree.
