Pregnant With War

What did Keegan mean when he said, "For the truth of twentieth-century European civilization was that the world it dominated was pregnant with war"?

The conditions in Europe seemed to fit very well for militarization: there was a multiplication of force, populations skyrocketed, and censuses were organized to make recruiting for soldiers easier. Many regiments were formed by conscripts and ex-conscripts, which was the first instance of demographic change. With the increased knowledge of hygiene, mortality rates decreased. With a better organization system on citizens, censuses were able to target individuals for recruitment very easily. Even from the nineteenth century, Keegan reveals that Engels wished for a more organized system for the class of workers when he says, “As an old and increasingly dispirited ideologue, [Engels] sought to persuade himself that the proletariat, by then the captive of Europe’s conscription laws, would liberate itself by subverting the states’ armies from within” (Keegan 12).