If this book didn't cause politicians and other war-mongering world leaders to look for less violent approaches to problem-solving, they probably didn't read it. Maybe this was written about a war that happened ages ago, the same thing still happens today: young people go to arms unknowing of the realities of the battlefield. When one thinks of it, the citizens who fight the wars don't have any reason to fight the "enemies" who are also individual citizens somewhere else. It should be the case that politicians get together and duke it out if they have problems to solve and not to get everyone else involved. There would be fewer problems that way.