I’m not even sure what you’re asking. Where did you hear it called that?
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why is the mexican-american war considered "the last war of humanity"??
why do you consider the mexican-american war "the last war of humanity"??
because it was the last one to be similar to the ones from the older days and that it didn't use any tech!! between two countries
It might seem like there was an "old days" in war compared to modern times but technology in war has always been continuously improving and has often been the decisive factor.
In the America-Mexico war the Americans had a distinct technological advantage being able to use the newer and more accurate 1841 Springfield rifle. They also had superior artillery technology.
If you mean the "old days" as in mass troop movement on the field and hand to hand fighting and no computers then there was plenty of that all over Europe and elsewhere later in the 1800s all the way up to WWI.
See the Crimea War 1853-1856 and the Franco-Prussian war 1870-1871 for some notable examples. (Both with rifles, troops marching on the battle field, cannons, horses etc)
Okay, so there are some stupid questions.
It's not.
By humanity, do you mean with hand-to- hand combat? I'm not sure when that ended, but i would expect it to be around that time.
I don't have a complete answer, but the mechanization of warfare should have a lot to do with it. Things like the semi-automatic pistol -- they would have called it an "automatic" pistol during that era -- the modern hand grenade, the airplane for reconnaissance (although lighter-than-air balloons might have been used? IDK), and other weapons wouldn't have really appeared for the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).
Or did you mean the Spanish-American War (1898)? I think the same logic still stands, especially since train networks would have been more fully developed by the turn of the century.
Are you talking about: "from the pov of the US"?
Because otherwise: no, obviously absolutely not.