War is an organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. 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. The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war (and other violence) is usually called peace.
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. 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 culture, 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 ever changing technologies and potentials of war extend along a historical continuum. At the one end lies the endemic warfare of the Paleolithic[citation needed] with its stones and clubs, and the naturally limited loss of life associated with the use of such weapons. Found at the other end of this continuum is nuclear warfare, along with the recently developed possible outcome of its use, namely the potential risk of the complete extinction of the human species.
Crashing the skies
It is raining industrial years
Following the rivers of soot
Artificial years
The water is stone
All the animals bone
I'm alive
The sky opens up
Swallows all that is bound inside
Wars are bleeding
Wars are feeding
An artist is painting
Without any hands
A race of in-humans
They won't understand
Wars are bleeding
Wars are feeding
Stainless steel houses
With black platinum doors
Hide from the killers
The gamblers, the whores
For every bad feeling of hate
If you give up your flag for a life
They'll commit you insane
Bloodbath...a massacre
The five walls of silence
A leader who stands tall
Wars are bleeding
Wars are feeding
An artist is painting
Without any hands
A race of in-humans
They won't understand
Wars are bleeding
Wars are feeding
Stainless steel houses
With black platinum doors
Hide from the killers
The gamblers, the whores
Wars....wars....wars
Wars are bleeding
Wars are feeding
An artist is painting
Without any hands
A race of in-humans
They won't understand
Show me a smile on your silly face.
'Cause I'm getting tired of this human race,
My darling...
The eyes of a child as I went away,
And how many heroes have we killed today?
I can fly higher than an aeroplane,
And I have the voice of a thousand hurricanes,
My darling...
Men of destruction reap iniquity.
When heroes of courage die with dignity.
How many weapons did I help create?
How many lives will it devastate?
My darling...
I think of all the days in my life,
Where I could have done something more.
Yes I remember the days in my life,
Where I could have done something more.
There is never a day that goes by,
That's a good day to die.
Please open your eyes,
To the millions of lives,
That will senselessly die in our wars.
I think of all the days in my life,
Where I could have done something more.
Ya, I remember the days in my life,
Where I should have done something more.
I think of all the days in my life,
Where I could have done something more.
Yes, I remember the days in my life,
Where I should have done something more.
There was never a day that goes by,
That's a good day to die.
Please open your eyes, Oh.
There was never a day that went by,
That's a good day to die.
Won't you please close your eyes?
For the millions of lives...
We are all americans as much as you are
American citizens with no stripes or stars
Remember that we are not american folk
Simply be born here does not make us this land's folk
My tongue ain't american and neither is yours
Unable to speak, I am, tongues from days of yore
So I sing in this toungue of yours, so that you can see
That I think this land ain't yours, nor ours, let us be
So stupid these silly thoughts of forcing your ways
Though you might succeed you ought to see you're astray
Out from this insanity, we must get somehow
Put aside your vanity, the wars must stop now
News and all your other mass brainwashing weapons
Overwhelming power in your misleading hands
Every time I watch tv
Hunger, wars
Nothing else to see
Politicians in debate
They stay at home
While we’re at the gates
They get better of it
While we take the loss
War is never the answer
War is the cause
Soldier boy returned from war
Never knew what he was fighting for
A teardrop shed from his lifeless eye
The entire war, one big lie
They get better of it
While we take the loss
War is never the answer