I hope we don’t have World War One Hundred Eleven, but the other side seems so determined.
Our World War numbering system is cockeyed.
The Cold War began in August 6th, 1945 and involved armed combat in more than 70 countries on five of the six inhabited continents* with millions of combatants and millions of civilians killed. We should be calling it WWIII.
*There was no fighting in Australia but Australia sent troops to Cold War fights around the world.
Except the French & Indian War (AKA the Seven Years War) was the first truly ‘global’ war, with fighting on five of the six inhabited continents (again, no Australia) and in the the Philippines. Close to 900,000 were killed.
The French & Indian War and the Cold War hadn’t had such crummy press agents, we would be on the look-out for WWV (apologies to the guys at Fort Collins).