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WAR
War is an interaction in which two or three or more opposing forces have a “struggle of wills”. The term is also used as a metaphor for non-military conflict, such as in the example of Class war.
A civil war is a war between factions of citizens of one country (such as in the English Civil War), or else a dispute between two nations that were created out of one formerly-united country. A proxy war is a war that results when two powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.
War is also a cultural entity, and its practice is not linked to any single type of political organization or society. Rather, as discussed by John Keegan in his History Of Warfare, war is a universal phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it. The conduct of war extends along a continuum, from the almost universal tribal warfare that began well before recorded human history, to wars between city states, nations, or empires.
In the organised military sense, a group of combatants and their support is called an army on land, a navy at sea, and an air force in the air. Wars may be conducted simultaneously in one or more different theatres. Within each theatre, there may be one or more consecutive military campaigns.
As long as mankind has existed there have been wars. Usually wars are conducted by countries or nations but smaller groups may also participate in wars.
The Greeks had city wars, tribes had tribal wars, gangsters (and today's neighborhood gangs) had and have turf wars, motorcycle clubs still have wars between clubs.
Stores and gas stations have price wars.
In all cases someone wants something the other has or feels a need for revenge for some imagined slight.
Many books and materials have been and are still being written about wars. Here you can find books and other paper documentation about wars.
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