Well, well, well, looks like there could be quite a few little troubles in Big China. Hi,

everybody. I'm Bill Little here with Steve Green and Scott. Two independent separate stories for you

today about situation in China. Both of them a little bit surprising to me anyway. Steve will start

with you, my fellow military historian Chappi. There's been an argument proposed it doesn't deal

directly with China, but is interesting,

nevertheless. And the argument basically says that we may have seen for perhaps forever, but certainly

for the foreseeable future, unless, of course, you have little asterisk, unless you're a Russian,

but we may have seen the end of large-scale casualty warfare.

And the reason for this is demographics.

Throughout virtually all of human history, wars were fought because we had an abundance of excess

male children.

There were just a family of 13 and you've got and you've got 12 young men and you've got

the air and you've got the spare.

And I'm not talking about royalty.

I'm just talking about in any just given family.

And many times wars, especially European wars, were fought because of overpopulation problems.

We just had too many people to feed and there's a constant struggle for resources.

But what the argument basically says now is when families are having two children or one child,

the societal impact on having that child being killed in combat is way out of proportion to what it used to be historically.

And you would think that this would affect America the most because we've always been most protective about our people as soldiers. We've always been willing to spend, you know, treasure to save blood.

But one of the arguments that's being made based on some recent events is that the actually, the

country that seems to be most terrified about major casualties is, surprisingly because of their one child policy and

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