The many decades of peace that Europe enjoyed after 1945 were a historically unprecedented achievement in which defence spending declined and armies shrank dramatically. “Where have all the soldiers gone?” asked one analyst of this transformation. Up until a month or two ago, polls showed that large numbers of the continent’s inhabitants regarded war as an anachronism, an outlook unchanged by the fighting that accompanied Yugoslavia’s break-up in the 1990s.
1945年後，歐洲享受了幾十年的和平，這是一項史無前例的成就，國防開支大幅下降，軍隊規模大幅縮減。「士兵們都到哪兒去了？」一位分析這一轉變的人士問道。直到一兩個月前，民意調查顯示，歐洲大陸的大量居民認爲戰爭是不合時宜的，這種觀點在20世紀90年代伴隨南斯拉夫解體的戰鬥中沒有改變。
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