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System level causes of war |
Wars caused by factors related to the general nature of the worlds political system |
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State level causes of war |
Caused by the nature of the states (internal processes/conditions) |
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Individual levels causes of war |
Caused by the character of individual leaders/nature of the human) |
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Unconventional force |
Guerilla warfare, covert operations, and terrorism conducted by military forces/paramilitary groups. Groups rely on external forces for funds/weapons. |
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Conventional force |
Force applied by uniformed military units usually against other uniformed military units. Using weapons other than biological/chemical/nuclear. |
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Complete disarmament |
Method of abolition of war. Simple disarmament of weapons. The idea is, that without weapons, people will not fight. |
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Pacifism |
Method of abolition of war. A bottom-up approach to avoidance of war based on the belief that it is wrong to kill. |
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Defensive War |
A war where at least one nation is mainly trying to defend itself from another. |
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Conduct of war |
Sun Tzu: A government should not mobilize out of anger, act when its beneficial, desist when its is not. Carl von Clausewitz: War is a political instrument, carrying out diplomacy by other means. |
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Preemptive War |
A war that is commenced in an attempt to repel or defeat a perceived imminent offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage in an impending/unavoidable war shortly before that attack materializes. |
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Terrorism |
A form of political violence conducted by individuals, groups, or clandestine government agents that attempts to manipulate politics by attacking noncombatants and nonmilitary targets in order to create a climate of fear. |
