war

⚔ Old Norse, English: Original meaning in the early Middle Ages: to bring into confusion. Today the term is used for war. War is in international law an armed conflict, a breach of the peace that exists between warring states. War is conscious use of structured tools in violent group conflicts - a duel or feud between military alliances between allied states and between citizens of a state to achieve political, economic or imperial goals and power: booty.
Wars must be prepared through the costly build-up funded by war taxes, war bonds and government bonds, conscription and recruitment of professional soldiers or mercenaries, war emergency and building of enemy images. This is sought achieved by the use of propaganda and psychological warfare.
War is devastating, horrific barbarism and therefore cannot be just.
Because there are war crimes in all wars, rewriting the facts of reality in a flowery language is common: to attack is actions in a theatre by force, coercion, preventive military actions and operations with military forces etc.
After the war and occupation bills must be paid: the poisoned, ruined countries and cities rebuilt; war waste removed, sick civilians, soldiers, veterans and prisoners of war healed from their trauma and war injuries, displaced must be integrated, which increases the total war burden.
Wars can be prevented by the use of disarmament, dialogue, reconciliation, international organization and law, peace education, conflict resolution, avoiding military service, conversion, pacifism, treaties and arbitration
Oldnordisk, engelsk: Oprindelig betydning i den tidlige middelalder: at bringe i forvirring. I dag bruges udtrykket om krig.
See also: Bellum.

Literature

Armed Conflict - Armed Conflict in the World Today / Karen Parker, J.D. ; Anne Heindel, J.D. Humanitarian Law Project/ International Educational Development ; Parliamentary Human Rights Group (UK). 1999. - ISBN 1 901053 05 9.
Armed Conflict 1946-2001 : A new dataset / Nils Petter Gleditsch ; Peter Wallenstein ; Mikael Eriksson ; Margareta Sollenberg ; Håvard Strand. In: Journal of Peace Research, 2002:5 pp. 615-637
Armed Conflict and Its International Dimensions, 1946–2004 / Lotta Harbom ; Peter Wallensteen. Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.
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Bloch, Jean de: The future of war in its technical, economic, and political relations.
- Boston : Ginn and company, 1902. - 380 pp.
http://www.archive.org/details/futureofwarinits00blociala
The cost of war : Unimagiable : Governments tends to underestimate the bill. In: The Ecconomist, 02/22/2003 p. 71.
Dinstein, Yoram: The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict.
Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 275.
FAO: Armed conflicts leading cause of world hunger emergencies.
Lampszus, Villiam: Der Menschenschlachthaus. 1912.
Nordstrom, Carolyn: Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century.
http://www.ucpressedu/books/pages/10101.html
Ward, Richard: The Anatomy of Warre, or, warre with the wofull fruits, and effects thereof, laid out to the life.
- London : Printed for Iohn Dalham and Rich,1642. - 22 pp. In Thomason Collection, British Library
Things clearly handled : "1. What Warre is. 2. The grounds, and causes of Warre. 3. The things requisite in War. 4. The nature and miseries of War, both Civill and Forraigne. 5. What things are justly taxed in War. 6. When War is lawfull. 7. Whether it be lawfull for Christians to make War. 8. Whether Subjects may take up armes against their Soveraignes. 9. The remedies against War. 10. The Meanes to be freed from War. 11. The Remedies, and Meanes both Military and Morall for the obtaining of Victory in War."
Wright, Quincy: A Study of War.
The University of Chicago Press, 1942 ; 1965. - 1647 s.
http://www.archive.org/details/studyofwarvol11001580mbp

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