A contest between nations or
states, carried on by force, either for defense, or for revenging insults and
redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce or acquisition of territory,
or for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the
other. These objects are accomplished by the slaughter or capture of troops,
and the capture and destruction of ships, towns and property. Among rude
nations, war is often waged and carried on for plunder.
As war is the contest
of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the
monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. When war is commenced by
attacking a nation in peace, it is called an offensive war, and such attack is
aggressive.
When war is undertaken to repel invasion or the attacks of an
enemy, it is called defensive, and a defensive war is considered as
justifiable. Very few of the wars that have desolated nations and deluged the
earth with blood, have been justifiable.
Researchers have calculated that
since 3600 BC, there have been 14,531 wars resulting in 3 billion deaths over
the years (current world population: 6 billion).
Peace prevailed for a total of
only 292 years on earth, about 5% of the time.
Currently
there are over 30 armed conflicts or "wars" taking place around the
world.
Wars
since the 1990s have been mainly internal. They have been brutal, claiming more
than 5 million lives. They have violated, not so much borders, as people.
Humanitarian conventions have been routinely flouted, civilians and aid workers
have become strategic targets, and children have been forced to become killers.
"Nonviolence
is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need
for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and
violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
-Martin
Luther King, Jr.
War
Year
Deaths
American
Revolution
1775-83
49,000
French
Revolution
1789-1794
40,000
U.S.
Civil War
1861-65
600,000
World
War I
1914-18
10,000,000
Mexican
Revolution
1900-20
1,500,000
Russian
Revolution
1917
15,000,000
World
War II
1939-45
57,000,000
Korean
War
1950-53
2,000,000
Vietnam
1964-73
2,500,00
Iraq-Iran
1980-88
1,000,000
Rwanda
1994-95
900,000
Extermination
of People
By
conservative estimates, the Native American population of the United
states prior to European contact was greater than 12 million. The Native
American population in the 1990 U.S. Census was 1.8 million. There are 560 American Indian tribes that have tribal governments that are
recognized by the United States in a government to government relationship. The
United States has failed to fulfill the terms of over 300 treaties agreed to
with Native Americans. There are also approximately 314 federal Indian
reservations in the United States.
In
World War II Nazi led Germany killed an estimated 6 million Jewish people.
In
the bloody civil war in The Congo over 2.5 million people have
died.
Terrorism
The
unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized
group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing
societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
If
the people of the Earth do not learn to live together in harmony we will
cease to exist-the apathy, greed, conspiracy, desperation and hate in
the world must be replaced with peace, caring, cooperation,
understanding and hope.
Ongoing World Conflicts
UNITED STATES
United States
vs. al-Qaeda & The Taliban & Osama bin Laden
9/11/01 New York and
Washington, D.C. Attacked
MIDDLE EAST
Iran vs. Kurds
Iraq vs. U.S. & U.K.
Israel vs. Palestinian
Authority (Al-Aqsa Intifada)
ASIA
Afghanistan:
Taliban vs. U.S. & U.K.
India
vs. Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front
India
vs. Assam insurgents (ULFA & NDFB)
India
vs. Pakistan
Indonesia
& West Timor paramilitaries vs. UNTAET
Indonesia
vs. Aceh separatists
Indonesia
vs. Irian Jaya separatists
Indonesia
vs. Christians & Muslims in Maluccan Islands
Uzbekistan
vs. Islamic militants & drug gangs
People's
Republic of China vs. Tibet
People's
Republic of China vs. Uighur
Philippines
vs. Moro Islamic Liberation Front
Philippines
vs. New People's Army
Philippines
vs. Abu Sayyaf
Malaysia
Sri Lanka vs. Tamil Eelam
India
Tajikistan vs. Islamic militants & drug gangs
Uzbekistan
vs. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan & drug gangs
AFRICA
Algeria
vs. Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
Angola
vs. UNITA
Burundi:
Tutsi vs. Hutu
Democratic
Republic of Congo & "allies" vs. Rwanda, Uganda &
indigenous rebels
Ethiopia
vs. Eritrea
Guinea
vs. rebels based in Sierra Leone & Liberia
Rwanda:
Tutsi vs. Hutu
Sierra
Leone and UNAMSIL vs. Revolutionary United Front and Liberia
Sudan
vs. Sudanese People's Liberation Army
Uganda
vs. Lord's Army
EUROPE
Russia
vs. Chechnya
Kosovo:
Albanians vs. Serbs & other minorities
LATIN
AMERICA
Colombia
vs. National Liberation Army (ELN)
Peru
vs. Sendero Luminoso
Colombia
vs. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Colombia
vs. Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC)
"War
has shattered Many young men's dreams We've got no place for it today They say
we must fight to keep our freedom But Lord, there's just got to be a better way
It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker War Friend only to the undertaker War War
War-Good God, now Now Give it to me one time now now now .....
Data
compiled from The British Antarctic Study, NASA, Environment Canada,
UNEP, EPA and
other sources as stated and credited Researched by Charles
Welch-Updated dailyThis
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