What is the Meaning & Definition of war

War is called the conflict more serious socio-political that can exist between two or more groups. The war is also the oldest of international relations between the countries. A war will be basically between armed groups and their purposes include: control of human or natural resources, disarmament, subjugation and destruction of the enemy. Meanwhile, there is no one, but a huge range of possibilities that could trigger a war, including: maintenance, or change in terms of power relations, resolve economic, political or territorial disputes.
A war implies always rules, but these a long history and the evolution of the times have been changing, as well as also another issue that is susceptible of variation it is the who happen to be fighters. The most common opportunities tend to be the civilians taken from the general population in the event of the imminence of conflict, almost always males very young or otherwise professional soldiers forming standing armies.
A war according to the way which holds can be classified in several ways. So that we can find the following variants: preventive war (the one that gives the course a nation on the basis of that other country is preparing to attack it. An example of this is the recent invasion of the United States to Iraq), civil war (those that involve the inhabitants of a town or country, does not register interference of other countries, for example the confrontation between the guerrillas, the military and the paramilitaries in Colombia), Holy War (the one promoted by religious motives.
Many Muslim groups today use this form of warfare), dirty war, (those which use actions that are outside any legal or declared) war of waves (when radio stations are used to spread a message of war), biological warfare (one that uses bacteria or germs harmful to people's health as armament) , chemical warfare (those that use highly harmful to the integrity of those chemicals to achieve their purposes) and cold war (hostility with regard to relations between two or more countries without armed confrontation).
But it is also very common the use of the term to mean a bout or opposition in the moral and psychological sense. For example, John and Laura make war all day to be able to impose their ideas on coexistence.
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