The 1914-18 conflict was dubbed 'the war to end all wars', such was the scale and cost, both in economic and human terms. History shows that this cataclysmic event, which claimed eight million lives, was a mere prelude to an even greater conflagration a generation later. So much for the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, when nations including Germany, America, Japan, France and the United Kingdom agreed upon 'the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy'

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