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  You could argue, Tom, that a state of war or readiness for a wider European war existed almost continually in Europe (with perhaps a break from 1918 to 1933 when the Nazis came to power) from the 1870s until 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  
  That power vacuum of course unleashed a civil war in Yugoslavia.
  
  the above quote from Bertrand Russell sums it up perfectly. We could have avoided war, but wanted to "sort out" the beastly Hun and stop Germany getting its share of the Imperial spoils and competing with our Navy.

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