War

War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such(a) as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is broadly characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, in addition to mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare referenced to the common activities and characteristics of sort of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is non restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can statement in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties.

While some war studies scholars consider war a universal and ancestral aspect of human nature, others argue it is a written of specific socio-cultural, economic or ecological circumstances.

Etymology

The English word war derives from the 11th-century Old English words wyrre and werre, from Old French werre also guerre as in innovative French, in vary from the Frankish *werra, ultimately deriving from the Proto-Germanic *werzō 'mixture, confusion'. The word is related to the Old Saxon werran, Old High German werran, and the German verwirren, meaning "to confuse", "to perplex", and "to bring into confusion".