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War
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Outline of war
Prehistoric
Ancient
Medieval
Gunpowder
Industrial
Modern
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Air
Information
Land
Sea
Space
Armor
Artillery
Biological
Cavalry
Conventional
Chemical
Cyber
Electronic
Infantry
Nuclear
Psychological
Unconventional
Aerial
Battle
Cavalry
Charge
Cover
Counter-insurgency
Foxhole
Guerrilla warfare
Morale
Siege
Tactical objective
Blitzkrieg
Deep battle
Maneuver warfare
Operational manoeuvre group
Attrition
Deception
Defensive
Offensive
Goal
Naval
Containment
Economic warfare
Military science
Philosophy of war
Strategic studies
Total war
Command and control
Doctrine
Education and training
Engineers
Intelligence
Ranks
Staff
Technology and equipment
Materiel
Supply chain management
Asymmetric warfare
Cold war
Mercenary
Military operation
Operations research
Principles of war
Proxy war
Religious war
Trench warfare
War crimes
Battles
Commanders
Operations
Sieges
Wars
War crimes
Weapons
Writers
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War is an organised and often prolonged armed conflict that is carried out by states or non-state actors. It is generally characterised by extreme violence, social disruption, and economic destruction. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of political violence or intervention. The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war is usually called peace.In 2003, Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest problem facing humanity for the next fifty years. In the 1832 treatise On War, Prussian military general and theoretician Carl von Clausewitz defined war as follows: "War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will."While some scholars see warfare as an inescapable and integral aspect of human nature, others argue that it is only inevitable under certain socio-cultural or ecological circumstances. Some scholars argue that the practice of war is not linked to any single type of political organization or society. Rather, as discussed by John Keegan in his History of Warfare, war is a universal phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it. Another argument suggests that since there are human societies in which warfare does not exist, humans may not be naturally disposed for warfare, which emerges under particular circumstances.The deadliest war in history, in terms of the cumulative number of deaths since its start, is the Second World War, with 60–85 million deaths. Proportionally speaking, the most destructive war in modern history has been claimed to be the War of the Triple Alliance, which took the lives of over 60% of Paraguay's population.
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