A review by brannigan
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots by Ian Morris

3.0

An engaging, concise look at human warfare through the ages, but the author's central premise that wars can be classified into "productive" and "non-productive" smacks of post-hoc rationalisation and hand-waving. Also the last chapter kind of dissolves into a long-form Economist article. A nice try and a decent read, but it offers very little expansion on Hobbes, Pinker and Diamond.