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War

War is a conflict involving the organized use of weapon Weapon

A weapon is a tool [i] which is intended to or is used to injure [i], kill, or [i] ... 

s and physical force by states or other large-scale groups. Warring parties usually hold territory, which they can win or lose; and each has a leading person or organization which can surrender, or collapse, thus ending the war.

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Timeline

1637   England wages war against the Mashantucket Pequots

1798   Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'

1870   The ''Ems Dispatch'' serves as a reason for a war between Prussia and France

1914   World War I: Battle of Coronel fought - A Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is met and defeated by the superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee. This is the first British naval defeat of the war.

1929   The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).

1940   World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.

1968   Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor, for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.


Quotations

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If you wish for peace, understand war.

Strategy (1967) by B. H. Liddell Hart

It takes two sides to make war. It only takes one side to make a massacre.

attrib. 2ACR, 1991, Al Samawah

The more you sweat in training, the less you'll bleed in battle.

An Army Basic Training Saying

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

War is fought by human beings.

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War is a conflict involving the organized use of weapon Weapon

A weapon is a tool [i] which is intended to or is used to injure [i], kill, or [i] ... 

s and physical force by states or other large-scale groups. Warring parties usually hold territory, which they can win or lose; and each has a leading person or organization which can surrender, or collapse, thus ending the war.
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