Also known as: warfare
Korean War
Category:
History & Society
- Key People:
- Charlemagne
- Alexander the Great
- Elizabeth I
- Genghis Khan
- Justinian I
- Related Topics:
- tactics
- logistics
- strategy
- law of war
- guerrilla warfare
Recent News
Apr. 10, 2024, 1:37 AM ET (MSN)
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war, in the popular sense, a conflict between political groups involving hostilities of considerable duration and magnitude. In the usage of social science, certain qualifications are added. Sociologists usually apply the term to such conflicts only if they are initiated and conducted in accordance with socially recognized forms. They treat war as an institution recognized in custom or in law. Military writers usually confine the term to hostilities in which the contending groups are sufficiently equal in power to render the outcome uncertain for a time. Armed conflicts of powerful states with isolated and powerless peoples are usually called pacifications, ...(100 of 6482 words)