- published: 23 Jan 2016
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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.
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The End may refer to:
Anyone who's shaken dust
Knows that it should fall back
Harmless
It's over now
Things have changed
Everything is different And rearranged
We never got the way that we should go
Tears and heartache, nothing more
I had to play grownup in our game
That wasn't fair, that was the worst thing
And if I didn't say this was the end
You would still be here now
We wanted to be out of our heads
In all that we could do
Daddy didn't but you a diamond ring
And mummy's still waiting for better things
Baby's on his own now he's qualified
Remember I was there on his down days
You'll do good and you know that too
If I can give them I will do
Mummy's gonna buy you a brand new life
Mummy's gonna buy you a brand new life
And if I didn't say this was the end
You would still be here now
We wanted to be out of our heads
In all that we could do
Born leaders, no, no we are not
Born leaders, no, no never growing up
Born leaders, no
My hands be still should my eyes be bright
And if I didn't say this was the end
You would still be here now
We wanted to be out of our heads
In all that we could do
And if I didn't say this was the end
You would still be here now