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That’s highly debatable and is rather impacted by the specific context of a given conflict and the personalities of particular politicians.For example Korea, Vietnam, China Civil War, various India/ Pakistan and various “end of empire” and other conflicts short and long were waged at terrible cost by leaders of a generation born before WW2.And generally speaking those leaders probably had rather more scope to wage ongoing bloody: “messy” colonial-style “small scale” conflicts with more compliant/ “managed” media and other stakeholders than most of their modern equivalents.And the approx. coincidence/alignment of the end of the Cold War (with increased instability) and the natural generational transfer of power to leaders born post-war leaders is probably more of a significant factor.
That’s highly debatable and is rather impacted by the specific context of a given conflict and the personalities of particular politicians.
For example Korea, Vietnam, China Civil War, various India/ Pakistan and various “end of empire” and other conflicts short and long were waged at terrible cost by leaders of a generation born before WW2.
And generally speaking those leaders probably had rather more scope to wage ongoing bloody: “messy” colonial-style “small scale” conflicts with more compliant/ “managed” media and other stakeholders than most of their modern equivalents.
And the approx. coincidence/alignment of the end of the Cold War (with increased instability) and the natural generational transfer of power to leaders born post-war leaders is probably more of a significant factor.
