[Sherman Logan]

Here’s link to a timeline of (some) European wars from 1521 to 1659. Almost continuous warfare.

The 17th and 18th centuries aren’t much different.

I suspect if we added up the number of war/years for major powers in these centuries, then compared them to the 19th, the 19th would be somewhere around 10% to 20%, which is what I meant by a period of “general peace.”

Comparatively speaking, that is.

[Will88]

Your link means nothing other than there might have been some years of recovery in Europe from the Napoleon era. There was no cessation of conflict between the major powers, only marginally fewer conflicts until they embarked on the most deadly and destructive conflicts in history.

And, this thread is about the absence of wars since WWII and the introduction of nukes. And the point of the thread and the Time article is that there have been NO wars between major powers since the development of nuclear weapons.

The point you are trying to make is really irrelevant to this thread. If there were fewer wars during the period you mention, it had nothing do with the major powers having lost their appetite for warfare, but just a little breather until they fought the most destructive wars in history.