> a better explanation might be, historically, passage of time leads to war.
My point exactly. Say that wars break out naturally with some Poisson-like distribution. When the war breaks out, the scale of it is gonna be in relation to the current arsenal of the warring parties.
So given your comment, I can revise my comment to say:
Historically—and mathematically—military build up leads more devastating wars.
Although that is not entirely true. As if nations didn’t hold militaries, there wouldn’t be wars between nations.
Mathematics has nothing to do with it. And historically, military draw down also leads to war.
Or, a better explanation might be, historically, passage of time leads to war.