2026*
2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2033
1936
WW2 Era (1930–1945)
YearNarrativeMilitary
Spend		 Deaths /
100K		Countries
in Conflict		 Pop in
Combat		GDP in
Combat
Modern Era (2010–2033)
YearEraMilitary
Spend		 Deaths /
100K		Countries
in Conflict		 Pop in
Combat		WWW
Analog
W O R L D W A R S
Period Narrative Peak Pop%
at War		 Deaths %
Global Pop		 Duration Primary Drivers
1635–1648 Global empire is dead 55.0% 5.40% 13 years Thirty Years' War + Ming-Qing Transition (China)
1757–1762 Colonialism is scaling 50.0%* 0.13% 5 years Seven Years' War. *China peaceful (~33%)
1793–1815 Nation states & national honor 65.0% 0.50% 22 years Napoleonic Wars + White Lotus Rebellion (China)
1853–1864 The civil war period 78.0% 2.40% 11 years Taiping Rebellion, Indian Mutiny, US Civil War
1937–1945 Total industrial war 80.0% 3.20% 8 years WW2 – peak industrial and imperial mobilization
2003–present 🔴 Post-9/11 order collapse 29.1% ~0.003% 23+ years Russia revisionism; Iran regional war; nuclear-state interstate conflict
Sources: SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, UCDP Conflict Data, ACLED, Maddison Project GDP
CURRENT CONFLICTS — 2003–2026
Sources: SIPRI · UCDP · ACLED · UNHCR · UN OCHA · ICG · IISS
POTENTIAL FLASHPOINTS  ·  Current escalation risk as of March 2026
Sources: SIPRI · UCDP · ACLED · ICG · IISS · Reuters · AP
Sources: PRIO Battle Deaths Dataset · Maddison Project · UCDP/PRIO · Encyclopaedia Britannica · SIPRI · ACLED · ICG
T H E   T E A M S
Great power coalition alignment across every world war period
A = established-order defender  ·  B = challenger / revisionist  ·  SW = switched sides  ·  NEU = neutral  ·  * = treaty-constrained  ·  † = tacit only
Sources: Maddison Project GDP · SIPRI · Encyclopaedia Britannica · Cambridge History of Modern War