[infowarrior]

To most who have to study these issues for a living WWIII was won by Ronald Reagan (the Cold War) and what the author is referring to is WWIV.

Even *that* is actually incorrect (off by one). The "real" First World War occurred approximately 100 years before the acknowledged First World War did. The first "world war" in man's history was the Napoleonic Wars (1805-1815), as campaigns were actually fought globally, and societies were totally reshaped in both the fightuing itself, and the aftermath, around the globe...

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[neverdem]

Even *that* is actually incorrect (off by one). The "real" First World War occurred approximately 100 years before the acknowledged First World War did. The first "world war" in man's history was the Napoleonic Wars (1805-1815), as campaigns were actually fought globally, and societies were totally reshaped in both the fightuing itself, and the aftermath, around the globe...

A middle phase began with the declaration of war between France and Britain, and touched off the first true world war (Seven Years’ War). The North American conflict might well have remained a localized affair, but a realignment of European alliances ignited new rivalries to add to the simmering feud between Britain and France.

[NewRomeTacitus]

History is said to be written by the victors but, even worse, it's never decided upon by the scholars! With what I can barely comprehend when reading of quantum mechanics with string theories postulating 18 dimensions and such even the so-called "hard sciences" are wide open to conjecture.

Even so, the fact remains that despite (and in some ways because of) all of these marvelous advances we're still threatened by the shadow of destruction at the hand of man's madness. The sooner we achieve secure DNA banks offworld and terraformed planets the better.

[The_Reader_David]

You, too, are off by one. The first global war was the Seven Years War, which had campaigns not just in Europe, but in India and North America (where our provinicial custom renames it the "French and Indian War").