In the technological society where competition for resources becomes obsolete, it does not serve any useful function, remaining simply a blood sport for channeling innate male aggression.
In particular, he puts forward an amazing idea that war as a human institution may be at its historic end. Keegan book (John Keegan, “A History of Warfare”), which in a fashion, typical of English social sciences, mixes brilliant writing with superficial scholarship as predictably as English lunches wash down awful food with excellent tea. I would recommend it as a useful substitute to J. Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization, Oxford University Press, 2006 The book is long (800+ pages) and contains a lot of extremely interesting material, primarily about ancient warfare.
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