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  War (disambiguation) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
War can also refer to: War (card game) WAR (file format), a file format used to package Java applications; War (film), a 2007 Jet Li and Jason...
Iraq war may refer to: Military history of Iraq; Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia; World wars: Mesopotamian campaign (1914-1918) Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) Persian Gulf wars:
A Iraq War may refer to either these three major Iraqi wars: Iran-Iraq War (1980 -August 1988, Iraq invades Iran, which fought it to a stalemate over an 8 year period) Gulf War...
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  War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
War is a state of widespread conflict between states, organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by the use of violent, physical force between combatants or upon civilians.
War is contrasted with peace, which is usually defined as the absence of war.
A conventional war is a war where nuclear or biological weapons are not used, whereas, unconventional warfare (nuclear warfare) is a war where such weapons are used.
www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Warfare   (2863 words)

  
 Civil war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A civil war is a war in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire.
Religion is more contentious, there are some civil wars that can be seen as fueled by religion in early years, such as the Jewish Revolts against Rome, but these can also be seen as revolts by a servile people against their oppressors or uprisings by local notables in an attempt to gain independence.
Civil wars fought over religion have tended to occur more frequently in monotheistic societies than in polytheistic societies; this has been explained as being due to the fact that the latter tend to be more "flexible" in terms of dogma, to allow for some latitude in belief.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Civil_war   (1650 words)

  
 War - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Today, some see only just wars (which also cause suffering, but are started tocounter what is deemed even worse suffering) as legitimate, and it is the goal of organizations such as the United Nations to unite the world against wars of unjust aggression.
Sometimes the term "war" is restricted by legal definition to those conflicts where one or both belligerents have made aformal declaration of war.
A war where the forces in conflict belong to the same country or empire or other political entity is known as a civil war.
www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=War   (2575 words)

  
 War - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 was embraced by many societies from Sparta in Ancient Greece and the ancient Romans to the fascist states of the 1930s.
Total war is the modern term for the targeting of civilians and the mobilization of an entire society.
Sometimes the term "war" is restricted by legal definition to those conflicts where one or both belligerents have made a formal declaration of war.
open-encyclopedia.com /War   (2810 words)

  
 Prisoner of war - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In principle, to be entitled to prisoner of war status, the captured servicemember must have conducted operations according tothe laws and customs of war, e.g.
For instance, in World War II, Soviet prisoners of Nazi Germany and Germanprisoners of the Soviet Union were often treated with neglect and brutality.
Since the special rightsof a prisoner of war, granted by governments, is the result of multilateral treaties, thesedefinitions have no legal effect and those claiming rights under these definitions wouldlegally be considered common criminals under an arresting jurisdiction's laws.
www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=POW   (1035 words)

  
 WAR FACTS AND INFORMATION
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.
Sometimes the term "war" is restricted by legal definition to those conflicts where one or both belligerents have formally declared war.
A war where the forces in conflict belong to the same country or empire or other political entity is known as a civil_war.
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 Schutzstaffel - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
When the Second World War began in 1939, the SS Medical Corps extended itself in the Armed wing of the SS which would, by1941, be known as the Waffen-SS.
It was also during World War II that SS doctors reached their height with human medical experiments, the most notorious ofwhich occurred at Dachau concentration camp andalso at Auschwitz.
SS doctors, inparticular, were marked as war criminals due to the wide range of human medical experimentation which had been conducted duringthe Second World War as well as the role SS doctors had played in the gas chamber selections of the Holocaust.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=SS   (5157 words)

  
 War (disambiguation) Summary
or WAR is an abbreviation and code for Warwickshire county in England.
War is also one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocaly...
“War in our time has been not merely a means of resolving inter-state disputes but also a vehicle through which the embittered, the dispossessed, the naked of the earth, the hungry masses yearning to breathe free, express their anger, jealousies, an...
www.bookrags.com /War_(disambiguation)   (164 words)

  
 Gulf War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations led by the United States.
During the war, Iraq enjoyed good relations with the United States: the United States tilted towards supporting Iraq, despite (or perhaps because of) earlier Soviet influence in Iraq, and supplied it with weapons and economic aid (with the only aberration being the Iran-Contra affair, where some American officials secretly and illegally sold arms to Iran).
Many American journalists remained stationed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad throughout the war, and footage of incoming missiles was carried almost immediately on the nightly television news and the cable news channels such as CNN.
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 Iraq War (disambiguation) - Conservapedia
A Iraq War may refer to either these three major Iraqi wars:
Iran-Iraq War (1980 -August 1988, Iraq invades Iran, which fought it to a stalemate over an 8 year period)
Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991, United States liberates Kuwait, and enters Iraq)
www.conservapedia.com /Iraq_War   (72 words)

  
 Holocaust (disambiguation)
Because the term "Holocaust" is so closely tied in contemporary times to the Jewish experience at the hands of the Nazis, use of it in other contexts may be seen by some as controversial or even offensive.
More than 100 000 were arrested and as many as 15 000 sent to concentration camps, where 10 000 died as a result of slave labor, castration, or surgical experimentation.
The term Hiroshima Holocaust is used to describe death of at least 140,000 civilians as the direct effect of nuclear bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima and 130,000 who died due to damages from radiation.
www.mcfly.org /wik/Holocaust_(disambiguation)   (1313 words)

  
 gulf war information
Following the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, Iraq was extremely indebted to several Arab countries, including a $14 billion debt to Kuwait.
Following the war, however, there were moves within the United States Congress to isolate Iraq diplomatically and economically over concerns about human rights violations, its dramatic military build-up, and hostility to Israel.
A crucial result of the Gulf War, according the Gilles Kepel, was the sharp revival in Islamic extremism.
www.war-against-terror.net /gulf-war.htm   (5400 words)

  
 Civil war biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the pre-modern period there were three main types of civil war dynastic conflicts, rebellions, and peasant revolts.
Civil wars over religion are unlikely in polytheistic societies where religions tend to be flexible and accommodating enough to prevent intercine violence.
Civil wars between Catholicism and Protestantism consumed France in the Wars of Religion the Dutch War of Independence and violence between Protestant sects played an important role in the English Civil Wars.
civil-war.biography.ms   (1631 words)

  
 Gulf War (disambiguation) - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This was a war between Iran and Iraq.
This was a war between Iraq and a coalition of nations led by the United States in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
This was a war between Iraq and a coalition of nations led by the United States, which resulted in the removal from power of the government of Saddam Hussein.
www.free-definition.com /Gulf-War-(disambiguation).html   (189 words)

  
 Gulf War - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Saddam had closely micromanaged the Iraqi forces in the Iran-Iraq War and initiative at the lower levels was discuoraged.
Trying to eliminate Saddam [in 1991], extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guidelines about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in 'mission creep,' and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs.
This T-shirt was worn by members of the Florida National Guard in Kuwait during the Gulf War.
www.free-definition.com /Gulf-War.html   (5182 words)

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