In the modern world, states conquer each other through a slow, grinding process of migration and assimilation and forced cultural change.
Since this does not involve a clear cut battle or series of military engagements, the victim does not feel defeated and resists with everything he has, thus instead of a short sharp act of mass violence, followed by first oppression and then integration, something that usually lasts a generation or less, we have multi-generational, degeneration, murder, oppression and counter oppression. In other words, slow attrition that further grinds down both societies, especially those at the center of it. More >>
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