Poll: Has war changed?
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The weapons may change, the targets may change, the battlefields may change, even the reasons for fighting may change, but at the end of the day it is one group of people killing other groups of people. So apart from what I've already mentioned, the basic structure of war has not changed.
Even the reasons don't change. In the end, people fight for fear, interest or honor. Any other motivation is a screen for one of these three.
How we fight wars? That has changed. Thousands of years ago people would line up with their spears and shields or whatever weapon they had and would charge at one another. Now-a-days war is a much less personal affair most of the time. You shoot at people many yards away whom you can barely see or you drop bombs on them from a mile up in the air.
Why we wage wars? That hasn't changed, nor will it probably ever will change. We fight for a variety of reasons. We don't like the other group. We want something the other group has. We don't want the other group to have something. We think the other group is doing something wrong. We fight for these reasons now, we have fought for them for millennia, and we will continue to fight for them in the years to come.
Why we wage wars? That hasn't changed, nor will it probably ever will change. We fight for a variety of reasons. We don't like the other group. We want something the other group has. We don't want the other group to have something. We think the other group is doing something wrong. We fight for these reasons now, we have fought for them for millennia, and we will continue to fight for them in the years to come.
The way we carry out war has changed(Fighting styles, weapons) but war itself has not. Differing factions that for some reasons have focused all their efforts on fighting that other faction. So war has not and cannot because that is the definition of a war. However as I previously pointed out the weapons and styles are different as things evolved.
War in definition doesn't change yet the way we perform in war has changed, from war being a skilled way to fight for/with thy king and country to an easy means to kill people over governmental issues
Though the weapons and tech we use have changed the concept of war has not.
Kill the other guy for a pointless reason, be it the fault of your or their government.
Kill the other guy for a pointless reason, be it the fault of your or their government.
War will never change. The stick with sharp stone may have given way to the gun, but the method behind it is still the same.
As the sniper said in his Team Fortress 2 video: "At the end of the day, as long as there's two people left on the earth, someone is gonna want someone dead"
As the sniper said in his Team Fortress 2 video: "At the end of the day, as long as there's two people left on the earth, someone is gonna want someone dead"
sylekage said:
The answer really depends on whether we're arguing over war as a concept, or more specifically than that. War, as an armed conflict, is still the same. However, the way it has fought has changed dramatically.Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
War used to a game of chess, with most of the infantry somewhat poorly trained, and none of them having much of a concept of tactics. It was essentially an engagement between generals.
Now it is much more about the individual soldier and squad. Not as much about battles where ten thousand people die in an hour, but a week long struggle for a city. It's also not a seasonal thing as it was in the past, where every campaigning season the armies would march. Now, when it starts, it continues for years without stop.
First we'd hit people with clubs. Then we'd hit people with swords. Now we hit people with bullets and bombs.
