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War is an organized and often prolonged conflict that is carried out by states or non-state actors. It is generally characterised by extreme violence, social disruption and economic destruction. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of political violence or intervention. The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war is usually called peace.
While some scholars see warfare as an inescapable and integral aspect of human nature, others argue that it is only inevitable under certain socio-cultural or ecological circumstances. For some the practice of war is not linked to any single type of political organization or society. Rather, as discussed by John Keegan in his A History of Warfare, war is a universal phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it. Another argument suggests that since there are human societies in which warfare does not exist, humans may not be naturally disposed for warfare, which emerges under particular circumstances.
The deadliest war in history, in terms of the cumulative number of deaths since its start, is the Second World War, with 60–85 million deaths. Proportionally speaking, the most destructive war in modern history is the War of the Triple Alliance, which took the lives of over 60% of Paraguay's population, according to Steven Pinker. In 2003, Richard E. Smalley identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest problem facing humanity for the next fifty years.
The English word war derives from the late Old English (c.1050) words wyrre and werre; the Old North French werre; the Frankish werra; and the Proto-Germanic werso. The denotation of war derives from the Old Saxon werran, Old High German werran, and the German verwirren: “to confuse”, “to perplex”, and “to bring into confusion”. Another posited derivation is from the Ancient Greek barbaros, the Old Persian varhara, and the Sanskrit varvar and barbara. In German, the equivalent is Krieg; the equivalent Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian words for "war" is guerra, derived from the Germanic werra (“fight”, “tumult”). Etymologic legend has it that the Romanic peoples adopted a foreign, Germanic word for "war", to avoid using the Latin bellum, because, when sounded, it tended to merge with the sound of the word bello ("beautiful" .
War, to become known as one, must entail some degree of confrontation using weapons and other military technology and equipment by armed forces employing military tactics and operational art within the broad military strategy subject to military logistics. War Studies by military theorists throughout military history have sought to identify the philosophy of war, and to reduce it to a military science.
Modern military science considers several factors before a national defence policy is created to allow a war to commence: the environment in the area(s) of combat operations, the posture national forces will adopt on the commencement of a war, and the type of warfare troops will be engaged in.
- Conventional warfare is an attempt to reduce an opponent's military capability through open battle. It is a declared war between existing states in which nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons are not used or only see limited deployment in support of conventional military goals and maneuvers.
- The opposite of conventional warfare, unconventional warfare, is an attempt to achieve military victory through acquiescence, capitulation, or clandestine support for one side of an existing conflict.
- Nuclear warfare is warfare in which nuclear weapons are the primary, or a major, method of coercing the capitulation of the other side, as opposed to a supporting tactical or strategic role in a conventional conflict.
- Civil war is a war where the forces in conflict belong to the same nation or political entity and are vying for control of or independence from that nation or political entity.
- Asymmetric warfare is a conflict between two populations of drastically different levels of military capability or size. Asymmetric conflicts often result in guerrilla tactics being used to overcome the sometimes vast gaps in technology and force size.
- Intentional air pollution in combat is one of a collection of techniques collectively called chemical warfare. Poison gas as a chemical weapon was principally used during World War I, and resulted in an estimated 91,198 deaths and 1,205,655 injuries. Various treaties have sought to ban its further use. Non-lethal chemical weapons, such as tear gas and pepper spray, are widely used, sometimes with deadly effect.
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Books
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms (read by Alexander Adams)
Leo Tolstoy - War And Peace (read by Alexander Scourby)
Stephen Crane - The Red Badge Of Courage (read by Frank Muller)
William Wharton - A Midnight Clear SEARCHING ...
Margaret Mitchell - Gone With The Wind (read by Linda Stephens)
George Orwell - Animal Farm (read by Ralph Cosham)
Joseph Heller - Catch-22 (read by Jim Weiss)
William Young Sellar, Terrot Reaveley Glover - The Aeneid Of Virgil (read by Charlton Griffin)
Herman Wouk - The Winds Of War (read by Kevin Pariseau)
Tom Clancy - Red Storm Rising (read by Michael Prichard)
Homer - The Odyssey (read by Ian McKellen)
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet On The Western Front (read by Frank Muller)
James Fenimore Cooper - The Last Of The Mohicans (read by Robertson Dean)
Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny SEARCHING ...
Homer - The Iliad (read by Anton Lesser)
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (read by Ethan Hawke)
Herman Wouk - War And Remembrance (read by Michael Prichard)
Arthur Koestler - Darkness At Noon (read by Frank Muller)
Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark (read by Gordon Dulieu)
Richard Hooker - Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors SEARCHING ...
Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain SEARCHING ...
E.M. Forster - A Passage To India (read by Sam Dastor)
Norman Mailer - The Naked And The Dead (Unknown reader)
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls (read by Alexander Adams)
Richard Plant - The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals SEARCHING ...
Ben Fountain - Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (read by Oliver Wyman)
W. G. Sebald - Austerlitz SEARCHING ...
William Shakespeare - Henry VI SEARCHING ...
Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong (read by Peter Firth)
Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun (read by William Dufris)
Graham Greene - The Quiet American (read by Joseph Porter)
William Boyd - Restless (read by Rosemund Pike)
Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago (read by Phillip Madoc)
J. G. Ballard - Empire Of The Sun (read by Gerard Doyle)
Tom Clancy - The Hunt For Red October (read by Jay Charles)
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow (read by George Guidall)
Pat Barker - Regeneration (read by Steven Crossley)
Raymond Briggs - When The Wind Blows SEARCHING ...
Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers (read by Walter Covell)
George Orwell - Homage To Catalonia (read by Patrick Tull)
James Salter - The Hunters SEARCHING ...
Emile Zola - The Debacle SEARCHING ...
Evelyn Waugh - Men At Arms (read by Christian Rodska)
John Harris - Covenant With Death SEARCHING ...
Ford Madox Ford - Parade's End (read by Steven Crossley)
James Jones - From Here To Eternity SEARCHING ...
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner (read by Khaled Hosseini)
Code:
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http://rapidgator.net/file/9462d242f7a8dc2c739c6bfc91ec6fd9/War_And_Peace.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/aecbc5d734b2857ab2a80d1599ec1de3/War_And_Peace.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3110266ad37100dc014e509c5974e498/War_And_Peace.part3.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/266e20d6ec598710937fc25ce000515f/War_And_Peace.part4.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b9be6751468647f7096d8dd20af57847/The_Red_Badge_Of_Courage.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/70b294b6283c72376311e6d60830db9d/Gone_With_The_Wind.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b300c89b13f2f8e5aed0def6c65b4ef4/Gone_With_The_Wind.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/dbe147eee03df3d6919a503edee87bc5/Animal_Farm.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/849449a942f92664842d38e5d0b8acae/Catch-22.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/586cf6c8f957dfd3229c66d29941f5e8/The_Aeneid_Of_Virgil.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7649c2f2d7c92005ac2afd0b0337889e/The_Winds_Of_War.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6246387afb92ee79b82438be175e84b6/The_Winds_Of_War.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a6ce7481985848fb66a75796a82ec7fa/The_Winds_Of_War.part3.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/27ae6140bd11b2f40402b448e0ae54af/Red_Storm_Rising.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7c4e305e31390737f298a12b8091b040/Red_Storm_Rising.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/913ec88703feec3516e13bdfcd590c14/The_Odyssey.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5a3af8cda7f0662ea6a8b8fa1816fcdc/All_Quiet_On_The_Western_Front.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a1c5c571ba8523add63594dd1111a81a/The_Last_Of_The_Mohicans.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0e879ae41f2019934546069bd9606e7a/The_Iliad.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3fd859fe2bbf50bb28c2af9076899aef/Slaughterhouse-Five.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0d1225217b40678978a651526d16cb0a/War_And_Remembrance.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/67298a1b56245cfd5373e59b17b6c32e/War_And_Remembrance.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/05e7d9a8d64edb3b04b9b3ccbb293eed/Darkness_At_Noon.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/db59c83c8ff0a12d7ec41afb2aa3210b/Schindlers_Ark.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/74c9859abdaa333cddd152ca01cb3a68/A_Passage_To_India.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/32bb94c0390af3d4320b254dd73d764b/The_Naked_And_The_Dead.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1003e0638254ecd73771247c311fef45/For_Whom_The_Bell_Tolls.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/df8f74fd82e1d5dbb539d652fc2642d7/Billy_Lynns_Long_Halftime_Walk.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2b77944dcaa1cce707d9cb02206adc9e/Birdsong.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/78876a27c7e2afa3b793d0ad4dd8c6be/Johnny_Got_His_Gun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f9d9565c310e0c46fef8ddb58fbb45ac/The_Quiet_American.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3e6eaed9fc9107f7c361a609cf6b67a7/Restless.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3efb190be15a20f69dc303bf1dde5bf1/Doctor_Zhivago.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9a062cac8faf6bb0a7d27abeea03cbe5/Empire_Of_The_Sun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1ea204efa7afc9b57a9c6e78a26eb353/The_Hunt_For_Red_October.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cae561cc3b1e4fdee86e08c6779ef0b6/Gravitys_Rainbow.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f8adc340ec88955f78275ce8198f9b9c/Gravitys_Rainbow.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c0f1a28490c2cbe4fdedc86cc4279a29/Regeneration.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/367327767519dca27c83a41d801af4b7/The_Three_Musketeers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/42f3b5158d5ebbfb024cbfbd62a3f239/Homage_To_Catalonia.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4e76f7d7bcf27f652dbc2a65534f4bd9/Men_At_Arms.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5927577ed18c9e09112b43896fd51275/Parades_End.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/18724ff8806f8fae7210d7f63978637e/Parades_End.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6603838f548950dcdfb4e7f5ec7c6dec/The_Kite_Runner.rar.html |
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