10 Is anything fair in war? Unfortunately, if contemporary times have brought anything—especially since the 20th century—it has been unbridled warfare, targeting civilians: bombings of cities, sieges, starvation, rape... The Second World War marked a shift toward new forms of barbarism, with destructive air raids on urban centers, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the extermination camps, and the gulags. Armies no longer just fought and continue to fight each other; they also punish the defenseless population, sometimes obsessively and fanatically, sometimes with calculated coldness. Technology—now with drones—has made the execution of terror daring and dehumanized.

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