Can you frame your question better? When you say "time period", how long does that encompass? Today? This week? This month? Decade? Is there a signfying event of the "time period"?
My general opinion is that regardless of how you parse up time, no period is more inherently dangerous, happy, peace-loving, warlike or fun-tastic than any other, especially if you mean on a global basis. There is ALWAYS someone that the US is concerned about - in the last 100 years, its been Pancho Villa, the Philipino rebels, Germany, Russia, Soviet Russians, the Japanese, Germany again, Italy, Romania, the USSR, the Soviet Bloc, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Columbia, Venezula, Niceragua, Angola, Egypt, Cuba again, Argentina, Chile, North Korea, North Vietnam, Pakistanis, Iraq, "terrorists" and Russia (again). My point is that globally, there is always someone stirring the pot and agitating. If you want to be specific to an area of the world, you can find periods of peace once you get to a small enough area.
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