Poll: The next war?

[goodman528]

What do you think will be the next war to occur?

Games developers are asking themselves this all the time, but obviously they don't have any good answers, because all the games today seems to be based a fantasy wars that's never going to happen, e.g. Red Alert 3. So, what do you think is going to be the next war to happen in real life? Maybe these devs ought to stop making WWII and fantasy, and make something like this, just look at COD4.

USA is overspending a lot on military, I don't think the popular support is in place for another war, but it certainly has more capability to wage war abroad than the rest of the world combined. It could attack Iran or S.America, both in the interest of oil security.

Russia is still the second most military in the world, and it seems very willing to flex some muscles abroad to show everyone home and abroad that it's good to be Russian. It's most likely to be fighting in the Baku region and central Asia.

Taiwan is increasingly feeling the pressure from within to declare independence, with each year that passes it's links with China becomes weaker. However the day Taiwan declares independence will also be the day the island ceases to exist.

Korea is still officially in the state of ceasefire, both Korean states wants re-unification, and today the only realistic path is the triumph of the South. However the 38th parallel is still the most dangerous line on the planet. A war could be triggered here for no real reason at all.

World war? is it likely? Probably not. But, it does make for good games.

 

[Chickenlittle]

New Zealand vs. the Falkman Islands. obviously.

 

[qbert4ever]

USA vs. Canada vs. Turkey vs. Iraq.

Why? Because I said so, that's why.

Of course, no petty war between nations will compare to when Ultrajoe takes on the rest of the world.

 

[Dogeman5]

Key Players in my World War
U.S., U.K., Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain, Portugal, South Korea, The Good Canada (Quebec is not my friend!), Mexico, Brazil, India, V.S. France, Quebec, The People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Iran,
Neutral:Switzerland, Netherlands, Belguim, Denmark, Luxemburg, Russia
(I left out a lot of countries, but sue me)
The war will depend on if the first grouping of countries will get off there damn oil fix, If they don't, France may have won a war this century!

 

[stompy]

The next war, well, the way diplomatic relations are set up in today's nations, it'll be a World War. You get one small conflict between two relatively important nations, and then they'll call their friends, and then the shit hits the fan and we enter world war. Kinda like World War 1.

 

[cainx10a]

Earth V/S The Pluto Invasion Forces .... ok /exit

 

[The Iron Ninja]

New Zealand vs. the Falkland Islands. obviously.

They will have had it coming.

Stupid Falkland Islanders... *shakes fist*


Realistically it will probably either be US attacking Iran, or Russia stepping down on a smaller eastern European country.

Other than that though... I reckon Luxembourg should have a war with Senegal. Just so I can laugh at people who don't know where those countries are.

 

[EnzoHonda]

With the dollar cost of the Iraq war showing just how expensive it is to wage large-scale warfare, I think proxy wars will be the wave of the future. Equip the Darfur rebels to harass the Chinese-supported Sudanese government and oil establishment. Send a never-ending stream of militants into Iraq to keep the US involved indefinitely. Support/intimidate Georgia/Taiwan/Israel. A little push in any one of these places can cause problems that the large nations of the world can't afford to ignore.

However, when the next big war occurs, it's going to be in Central or East Asia. Too many people, too much growth, too many religions, too many cultures. I'm in this contest, I'm dating a virgin, something's gotta give!

 

[Dele]

With the dollar cost of the Iraq war showing just how expensive it is to wage large-scale warfare, I think proxy wars will be the wave of the future. Equip the Darfur rebels to harass the Chinese-supported Sudanese government and oil establishment. Send a never-ending stream of militants into Iraq to keep the US involved indefinitely. Support/intimidate Georgia/Taiwan/Israel. A little push in any one of these places can cause problems that the large nations of the world can't afford to ignore.

However, when the next big war occurs, it's going to be in Central or East Asia. Too many people, too much growth, too many religions, too many cultures. I'm in this contest, I'm dating a virgin, something's gotta give!

War on Iraq was quite cheap actually, its the OCCUPATION of Iraq that burns all your pennies.

 

[BigKingBob]

My bet is some one is going to piss off Russia (Southern regions, Georgia and alike, or Western, Ukraine or other former USSR) and Russia will strike back. Than of course USofA will jump in and start waving their metaphorical star spangled d!ck (especially if McCain will win the election). Which will piss off not only Russia but some other European countries as well. Believe me it will, with combination of current economical crisis (partially brought about by USofA) and innate hatred of anyone who waves their trouser snake while yelling "Imah da supapowah, n ganna tellz u how to live!" And thats when shit hits the metaphorical fan.

Let the WW3 begin! US + Most of Europe vs Russia + Asia + some random European countries (2 or 3) vs Eastern Terrorists (well these guys will hit everyone while we are at eachothers throats).

Though if Russia starts to step on former soviet states then you may well see the first mobilisation of the EU's combined forces. I see it as far more likely than a large scale US intervention if only for the reason that the EU is made of former soviet states (among other things obviously.)

Also, Russia's standing with the big three in Europe (UK, France, Germany) is at a particularly low ebb at the moment due to the Litvenyenko assassination, the Georgia "incident" and the fact that Russia keeps on cutting the gas pipelines to eastern european states just to keep them in line.

I don't think another Israeli-Arab conflict would happen, the Israelis have proved time and time again that they have the resources to handle anything the Arab states throw at them. That and there are a couple of US carrier battlegroups stationed in the region.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

4 (5 for the nitpickers) Words: Frontlines, Fuel Of War

 

[NeedAUserName]

Quite a grim topic...

Wales Vs Luxembourg Vs Iceland Vs N Ireland Vs Vatican City. Come on guys, we all know there's tension there

 

[SpiritCorsair]

Nobody's mentioned Venezuela in a post yet? With all the saber rattling down there, roping in Russia, and that nut-burrito Hugo Chavez down there, something's bound to go loco before too long.

And as nasty as the U.S. election is getting with its voters and their attitudes, I'm thinking that a Second Civil War isn't that crazily far-fetched anymore. (And I think it'll be split between the city slickers on the coasts and the bumpkins in "flyover country.")

 

[Apocalypse Tank]

Vatican City Vs. The World

That's how ghetto it is.
Forget tanks and infantry
Roll in god powers all over the world.

 

[Amnestic]

U.S. Vs. Iran Vs. Russia Vs. China. Everyone else'll say "Fuck this" and ignore them. Iran will be quickly swallowed up into a warzone as the war for their oil escalates to massive damage proportions!

 

[ianuam]

At a guess, Russia vs a former Soviet state. Whether it'd be a catalyst for a greater war is anyone's guess, but there's very little chance that this can be avoided.

 

[Daymo]

Israel and/or America vs Iran, because Iran keeps on going with their nucular proliferation, even if it is just for peaceful reasons.

 

[tomdavi]

Petty skirmishes and civil wars aside I think the next major conflict will be world war, albeit quite a way off in the future.

As my, perhaps misinformed or slanted, logic goes, America and the western countries that followed it into Iraq abd Afghanistan etc, simply don't have enough manpower and -with the possibility of severe economic downturn- money or public support to finance another preempitve invasion of another dangerous small country they suspect of researching nuclear weaopns etc. This I think is partly due to changing opinions of war in the news wrought by media cataloguing the death of each troop and the economic cost of war (this isn't true everywhere I know).

Therefore many smaller and more ambitious countries will be able to, in the next 20 years develop, on a smaller scale, the sort of weapons that would make a war between say Russia, America, the UK/Europe and China very unattractive if not impossible particularly in democratic countries. It will be at this point when most countries have nuclear capability that war will be at its least attractive and conventional "declare war and fight" tactics will become irrelevant and this is when any kind of intercountry tension will arise, like we can see from the example of the Cold war. Eventually however one of three situations will arise. In my eyes the most likely is that much of the west as well as Russia and china begin to disarm due to massive protest against nuclear weaopns leaving only a few smaller countries with some weapons which creates the sort of situation in which a serious war may occur. The second scenario is the creation of technology which either renders nuclear weapons obsolete, inert or not anywhere near as much of a threat as they are seen today, which will lead to the sort of millitary build up of conventional troops and weaponry which was a prelude to both world wars so far and may lead to another. The third scenario, I'm not sure but plenty of other things could potentially happen.

Sorry if I took this a bit too seriously but its an interesting topic.

 

[Souplex]

You are missing people try to invade America after total economic collapse.

 

[zirnitra]

I don't really like war but something really has to be done about North Korea, preferably a few years ago before they had nukes.