Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Nov. 2009
It is called war conflict more serious socio-political that can exist between two or more human groups. Likewise, war is the oldest of international relations between countries. A war will basically take place between armed human groups and among its purposes are: the control of human Resources or natural, disarmament, subjugation and destruction of the enemy. Meanwhile, there is not one but a huge range of possibilities that can trigger a war, including: the maintenance or change in terms of power relations, settling economic, political or political disputes territorial.
A war always supposes rules, but these throughout history and with the evolution The times have been changing, as well as another question susceptible to variation is who the combatants turn out to be. The most common possibilities are usually that of civilians taken from the population General in the event of the imminence of a conflict, almost always very young men or, failing that, professional soldiers forming permanent armies.
A war according to its form can be classified in several ways. Thus, we will be able to find the following variants: preventive war (one that gives rise to a Nation on the basis that another country is preparing to attack it. An example of this is the recent US invasion of Iraq), civil war (one that involves the inhabitants of the same town or country, it is not recorded interference by other countries, for example the confrontation between the guerrillas, the army and the paramilitaries in Colombia), holy war (one promoted for reasons religious.
Many Muslim groups today use this form of war), dirty war, (one in which actions that are outside of any legal or declared framework), wave warfare (when radio stations are used to broadcast a warlike message), biological warfare (that which as weapons uses bacteria or germs harmful to the health of people), chemical warfare (that which uses chemicals highly harmful to the integrity of people to achieve its purposes) and cold War (hostility regarding relations between two or more countries without reaching an armed confrontation).
But it is also very common to use the term to refer to a combat or opposition in the sense moral and psychological. For example, Juan and Laura fight each other all day in order to impose their ideas on the coexistence.
Issues at War