Have wars become less destructive to the natural environment in the past twenty years? This paper addresses this question by bridging the literature in environmental, security, and international law studies. It argues that, despite increasing perceptions of a rise in “precision warfare” thanks to technological innovations such as drones, in reality the destruction of the environment is very much still a considerable part of contemporary warfare. Gathering original evidence from recent inter-state conflicts, this paper demonstrates that, contrary to common wisdom, environmental destruction during war has become both more frequent and more pervasive rather in the past 20 years. The paper has important implications for our understanding of modern warfare. Studies of war and conflict have argued that wars have become less (Pinker 2011) or more (Braumoeller 2019) frequent, or that it has morphed completely in its forms (Fazal 2018). Yet, findings in this paper demonstrate that, while important, these changes should not distract us from the fact that, in important ways, conflict has not changed much. In other words, there are important facets of the war, such as its toll on the environment, that have not disappeared.