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Summary
Recent scholarship points to a drop in battle deaths over the past several centuries and suggests that war is declining. Improved medical care, however, has made battle wounds more survivable. War has become less fatal, but not necessarily less frequent.
Recommended citation
Fazal, Tanisha M.. “Dead Wrong? Battle Deaths, Military Medicine, and Exaggerated Reports of War's Demise.” Summer 2014
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