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  Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
War is a conflict involving use of weapons and physical force by states or other large-scale groups, coinciding with a lack of dialogue between the parties.
A war to liberate an occupied country is called a "war of liberation"; a war between internal factions within a state is a civil war.
Wars are seen as the result of evolved psychological traits that are turned on by either being attacked or by a population perception of a bleak future.
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 Civil war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight for political power or control of an area.
Civil wars fought over religion have tended to occur more frequently in monotheistic societies than in polytheistic societies; one explanation is that the latter tend to be more "flexible" in terms of dogma, allowing for some latitude in belief.
Civil wars between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism consumed France in the Wars of Religion, the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War, Germany during the Thirty Years' War, and more recently, The Troubles of Northern Ireland.
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 War - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A war to liberate an occupied country is sometimes characterised as a "war of liberation", while a war between internal elements of the same state may constitute a civil war.
Today war is generally seen as undesirable and, by some, morally problematic, although many view war, or at least the preparation and readiness and willingness to engage in war, as a necessary precursor to the defense of their country against aggressors.
At the outbreak of World War I the writer Thomas Mann wrote, "Is not peace an element of civil corruption and war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?" This attitude has been embraced by societies from Sparta and Rome in the ancient world to the fascist states of the 1930s.
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 Cold War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Cold War (Russian: Холодная Война Kholodnaya Voina) was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between capitalism and communism, centering around the global superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union, and their military alliance partners.
Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear and conventional weapons, networks of military alliances, economic warfare and trade embargos, propaganda, xenophobia, espionage, and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars.
Some date the onset of the Cold War to the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, regarding the United States use of nuclear weapons as a warning to the Soviet Union, which was about to join the war against the nearly defeated Japan.
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A civil war is a war in which the parties within the same country or empire struggle for national control of state power.
The wars of Henry II of England and Philip II of France The Stephen and Matilda conflict.
Just War theories attempt to conceive of how the use of arms might be restrained, made more humane, and ultimately directed towards the aim of establishing lasting peace and justice.
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 The latest What Was The Civil War at Civilwar & More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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The Civil War" is the most common term in the United States of America for this conflict; see Naming the American Civil War.
A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight for...
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