Many consider World War I to have been the first
modern war, a total war where the civilian populations
were deliberately endangered as a direct tactic of war,
which has continued in all subsequent wars. While
civilians have always died in wars, World War I made
civilian casualties accepted and commonplace, from,
for example, aerial bombardment. All aspects of the
societies fighting were affected by the conflict, often
causing profound social change, even if the countries
were not in the war zone.
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