War and its types.

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1. Assignment Submitted to sir Jaweed Khatak By Danish Reg no; 386-FSS-BSSOC-S15 Department; Sociology Bs 5 th course; International Relation International Islamic University Islamabad

2. WAR Definition; The state of armed conflict between countries or groups within a country I said to be war. Short history of war; The first war in the history was took place at Mesopotamia (Iran) 2700 BCE between Sumer and Elam, Sumer was the first urban civilization in southern Iraq and Elam was the ancient pre Iranian civilization in southwest Iran, Sumer was defeated the Elam at this war. Major wars; The two major wars in the history are world war first and world war second these are considered the most deadliest war of the history.

3. World war first; World war first started in Europe in 1914 and end in 1918, about seventy million personnel was from over 25 countries the location of this war was Europe,Africa,Middle East,Pacific island,China and Indian ocean. About nine million warriors and seven million civilians were died in world war first. World war second; World war second was started in 1939 and end in 1945 after the lost of 60 to 85 million lives, hundred million people was involved in this war from 50 countries including Japan,Italy,Germany , France, Britian,Austrelia,Canada,China and Soviet Union. Types of war; There are about 7 types of war which are discussed as under; The brief explanation of every types of war.

4. Hegemonic war Those war which is controlled by entire world order or the rule of international system as a whole, this type of wars are controlled by the world dominant and powerful countries, world war first and world war second are the example of hegemonic war where all the dominant countries were fighting each other for power. Total war Those war in which a country fight war against its enemy country to conquer or to occupy the whole country, to occupy and control the capital city of a country, it means to control totally the country system as a whole. Limited war It is a military action which I being taken to gain some specific goals or to occupy the specific territory, the recent war of Pakistan army with Taliban is the example of limited war, it was just to stop terrorism and to maintain peace in a country which was the specific goals.

5. Civil war(Intra-state war) Those war which is being fought within a country between different groups or between public and army, all the types of war which happens within a state are said to be civil war, example the war in Syria or the Taliban conflict in Pakistan is the good example of civil war. Guerrilla war A war in which small groups of soldiers not belong to regular and stablished unit of any force engaged fighting against a regular force. Proxy war The types of war in which dialogues propaganda and other warfare are used as a weapons, the best example are the war between Russia and America and Pakistan and India or Afghanistan proxy war have become very common in modern era because propaganda and dialogues are used more then weapons, because there is no possibilities of real war due to being atomic power of every country.

6. Major causes of war There are some major causes of war which have been briefly discussed as under; These are the causes which are merely responsible for war. Economic Gain Economic gain is the main cause of war because in the history as well as now a days different conflict are producing just for the resources like oil, minerals, mines, water and much more, so economic problem is declared to be the main cause of war. Ineffective Foreign Policy If the international relation a country become weak there must be the chances of war because due to weak foreign policy there is a more chances of misunderstanding between countries and misunderstanding often leads to conflict. So international relation should be more effective for the better foreign policy of any country.

7. Territorial Gain There are many war have been fought for the territory so territory is also the main cause of war, if a country realise that it needs some peace of land for agriculture or for other purposes then it select the way of war to gain some peace of land. Religion Religion is also said to be the main cause of war because there is many war in the history which are being fought just because of religion, not only history there are also religious conflict in modern era example Shia and Sunni conflict in Pakistan and Catholic and Protestant US Cristians . Nationalism If a country start war against other country just in aim to express its superiority on other country, example America is involved in every affair of the world to show its dominancy.

8. Civil War If there is civil war in a country there may be the chances of war by other country because the civil war male the country weak and it encourage the enemy country to attack. Revolutionary War If the large section of a population of a country strike against the government or other ruling body is said to be revolutionary war, like Dharna . Defensive or primitive War “We will attack them before they attack us” A defensive war is being fought against other country just because of the fair that they will attack us, this type of war happens as a defense.

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