War
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War (disambiguation) and
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War is a state of armed conflict between societies. It is generally characterized by extreme
aggression, destruction, and mortality, using
regular or
irregular military forces. An absence of war is usually called "
peace".
Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general.
[1] Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely
legitimate military targets, and can result in massive
civilian or other
non-combatant casualties.
While some scholars see war as a universal and ancestral aspect of
human nature,
[2] others argue it is a result of specific socio-cultural or ecological circumstances.
[3]
The deadliest war in history, in terms of the cumulative number of deaths since its start, is the
Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, with 60–85 million deaths, followed by the
Mongol conquests[4] which was greater than 41 million. Proportionally speaking, the most destructive war in modern history is the
War of the Triple Alliance, which took the lives of over 60% of
Paraguay's population, according to
Steven Pinker.[
not verified in body] In 2013 war resulted in 31,000 deaths, down from 72,000 deaths in 1990.
[5] In 2003,
Richard Smalley identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest problem facing
humanity for the next fifty years.
[6] War usually results in significant deterioration of infrastructure and the ecosystem, a decrease in social spending,
famine, large-scale emigration from the war zone, and often the mistreatment of
prisoners of war or
civilians.
[7][8][9] Another byproduct of some wars is the prevalence of
propaganda by some or all parties in the conflict,
[10] and increased revenues by
weapons manufacturers.
[11]
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POLITIC: WAR can be so destructive and acheive very little: with the invention of paper/electronic currency - one can FAKE a WAR "ex. rebuild a few new building with TV missle etc" - that would fall under trading education
