The War to End All Wars
1914-1918 ~ 4 years
World War II
1939-1945 ~ 6 years
Korea
1950-1953 ~ 3 years
Gulf War
1990-1991 ~ 1 year
Somalia
1992-1993 ~ 1 year
Afghanistan
2001-2010 ~ 9 years
Iraq War
2003–2011 ~ 8 years
Libyan civil war
2011 ~ 1 year
Military intervention against ISIL
2014-present ~ 3 years and counting
We aren’t even two decades into the 21st Century, and yet we’ve very nearly been at war as many years as we were in the whole 20th Century.
Remembrance Day isn’t working.