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Ellwood expresses insights about decolonization and lethal forces. War- at least in the tenor of coalitionary killing- may be deeply rooted in our proto-human lineage. Note that in a state of nature, lethal violence is ultra-local in character. By this is meant not just at close range, but combat takes place within easy reach and often through direct physical contact. In the absence of technology to harness other forms of energy, human combat has involved striking weapons whose effective force and range is limited by the inherent capacity of our neuromuscular architecture. Primitive weapons may extend the reach of an aggressor by a few meters, but the lethal application of force remained essentially ultra-local in the pre-modern context.