Essay on War

War

War is a terrible and devastating aspect of life for many people in the world and has been for thousands of years. Violence has existed as long as man has desired the possessions of others and many wars have been fought because one king has something another wants. You can find evidence of war all through human history it has taken more lives than any disease that has or ever will exist.

Although war has killed many people and left many more homeless, widows, orphans and extremely poor, it has brought peace to countries that would otherwise have stayed under the rule of tyrants and murderers. Our countries freedom and ability to rule our selves is due to the sacrifice of millions of men in two world wars.

After WW2 the United Nations was formed to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. So far the UN has had none or very little success in achieving any of its goals due to the corruption in other countries and their unwillingness to cooperate.

War is a state of armed and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties[1][2] typified by extreme aggression, societal disruption, and high mortality.[1] As a behavior pattern, warlike tendencies are found in many primate species,[3] including humans, and also found in many ant species.[4][5][6] The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war is usually called peace.

War generally involves two or more organized groups or parties. Such a conflict is always an attempt at altering either the psychological or material hierarchy of domination or equality between such groups. In all cases, at least one participant (group) in the conflict perceives the need to either psychologically or materially dominate the other participant.

In all wars, the group(s) experiencing the need to dominate other group(s) are unable and unwilling to accept or permit the possibility of a relationship of fundamental equality to exist between the groups who have opted for group violence (war). The aspect of domination that is a precipitating factor in all wars, i.e. one group wishing to dominate another, is also often a precipitating factor in individual one-on-one violence outside of the context of war, i.e. one individual wishing to dominate another.[7]

In 2003, Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest problems facing the society of mankind for the next fifty years.[8] 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."[9]

War is a seemingly inescapable and integral aspect of human culture. Its practice is not linked to any single