Exactly. Nothing motivates and unites a society like the physical death involved in war. I think if you zoom out on a society, you have to have a war regime an

Exactly. Nothing motivates and unites a society like the physical death involved in war. I think if you zoom out on a society, you have to have a war regime and a peace regime. There are going to be coordinating aspects that a war regime can achieve that a peace regime simply can not because the stakes involved fundamentally can't be the same by definition.