War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.
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War is a large-scale armed conflict fought between countries' militaries or between government forces and organized armed groups that have leadership and can carry out sustained fighting. It matters because it involves significant loss of life, destruction of resources, and can reshape political boundaries, economies, and societies.
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36 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Types of warfare
- Aims
- Definition
- Classification
- Effects
- Conflict zones
- Casualties
- Largest wars by death toll
- On military personnel
- On civilians
- Economic
- World War II
- Theories of motivation
- Psychoanalytic
- Evolutionary
- Economic
- Marxist
- Demographic
- Malthusian
- Youth bulge
- Cultural
- Rationalist
- Political science
- System-level
- Societal-level
- Individual-level
- Ethics
- Limiting and stopping
- Pauses
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War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.
It is generally characterized by widespread violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. War aims typically involve the pursuit of political, economic, or territorial objectives. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties.