Quote Originally Posted by lucy View Post
Indeed, it's not. As a matter of fact it's gotten much worse and the percentage of civilians being killed in war has continuously increased over the centuries.
Now you have to define "civilian". My gut says the percentage has gone down. The sheer number is up, but so is the total population. In the past, citizen soldiers, with no training in combative arts, were killed wholesale by being put into the fray as fodder. In the past, when a city was captured, it was sacked and any civilian who attempted to resist was beaten down and/or killed, unless they were female, then they were also raped. (First, second, and even sometimes third in that list.) In the past, survivors later starved or fell ill because their livelihood and homes were destroyed. They have to be counted too.

But that's all picking nits because the main point is spot on.