[Mr Ramsbotham]

"I predict that the incidence of war will decline," he told me in 1996, two years before his death. He based his prediction on the principle that there is less and less to be gained economically from war. As people get richer and smarter, their lives and their knowledge become far more valuable than the land, minerals and natural resources they used to fight over.

I guess he never considered that in most countries, people don't have much to say about it. Has he never heard of places like North Korea, or Zimbabwe?

[endthematrix]

"He based his prediction on the principle that there is less and less to be gained economically from war. As people get richer and smarter, their lives and their knowledge become far more valuable than the land, minerals and natural resources they used to fight over."

Also the erosion of national soverenty and interdependacy of economies and treasuries actually reduce it, and in Marxist utopia, end it. Quoting back to Lennon, "imagine there's no countries"