War
* All wars have environmental impacts, almost all of which are adverse.
* Many wars start over land, difference of religion and culture, or economic stress
  - stem from people's fear of difference
* Most war causes death
  - destruction
  - violence
* Most war kills men
  - young men
  - leads to poverty
  - wars occur in poor countries where food insecurity and hunger are rampant
* Some wars are fought in one theatre
  - overt military wars, others are endemic situations of social and economic conflict
* affects aspects
  - every aspect of a child's development
* aim at capturing slaves, assuring access to resources and strategic territories.
* also makes use of pain.
* always affects ordinary people and creates a vicious circle of violence
  - brings destruction to many people and things
  - comes down to planning and tactics
  - leaves pain, suffering and open wounds
  - means fear and fear is the weapon most used to control and manipulate humanity
* appears to be the only way in which offending countries are taught their moral lessons.
* are a factor which have particularly influenced the peoples who live in the Middle East.
* are a punishment for man's sin
  - sins
  - about people killing each other
  - always a punishment for man's sins
* are as old as history
  - stoppable as the manufacturing of weapons
  - between kings and their armies
  - justifiable only when waged in defense of weaker nations
  - land disputes
  - messy, and tens of thousands of people can easily disappear without a trace
  - sometimes situations that present continuing or continuous emergencies, often in multiples
* are the fruit of human wickedness
  - greatest disasters the world has ever known
  - useful because they foster medical and technological breakthroughs
  - very disruptive to the accumulation of wealth
* arises from social conditions and people s attitudes.
* brings death and famine
  - misery, death and destruction
  - out the good as well as the bad in people
  - people together and creates a sense of belonging to a greater good
* business in any part of the world.
* can be one of the most dehumanizing experiences that humans have had
  - bring out the best and the worst in people
  - easily erupt when nations depend upon armed forces as an option for defense and order
  - foster feelings of insecurity and anxiety in an individual
* can have a devastating impact on the economic and social fabric of a nation
  - devastating effects on human health and the environment
  - improve mankind, just as evolution by natural selection can improve species
  - seriously affect a community, especially through the loss of lives
  - spoil the value of money as inflation develops after months of conflict
* cause casualties
  - the number of women to greatly exceed the number of men
  - wounds and suffering that last far beyond the battlefield
* central feature of international politics.
* challenge to or from the value chain.
* colossal imposition on the moral judgment of mankind.
* come from lust or, modernly speaking, greed.
* compel people to flee.
* construct that has both sacrificial and ritualistic elements.
* contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared.
* contemptible act, an event of a breakdown in communication between nations.
* continuation of social peace by more extreme means.
* cost lives and money
  - money and that money usually came from the peasants through the taxes that they paid
* creates destruction of lives and the productive capacity of a society.
* destroys countries
  - families and pits people against their own friends and relatives
  - infrastructures
  - roads
* destructive force that continues to interrupt the growth of civilization.
* end with triumph and dominion or death or surrender.
* exacts a heavy toll on the physical, mental and psychological health of women.
* failure of policies that ought to be designed to prevent war from happening.
* game that is played with a smile
  - where someone can get hurt or die
* greatly accelerates the rate at which technology advances.
* grows directly out of things which individuals, statesmen and nations do or fail to do.
* happen because peace is betrayed.
* has a devastating effect on human lives, the economy, and the environment in Africa
  - tendency to erase the grey, and leave just the black and white, the right and wrong
  - consequences
  - devastate consequences
  - serious effects
  - sides
* have a habit of being fought in unlikely and unpleasant places.
* impacts bonobo societies
* implies the breakdown of social order.
* involve ruthless killing, even when short.
* is about conquering the enemy, taking everything they have and building a life for the people
  - courage, fear and bravery, but the heat of battle also can eat up another emotion
  - aggression on a very large scale and aggression is endemic to the human condition
* is also a cause for hunger
  - the death of culture
  - among the most horrific of activities pursued by mankind
* is an aberration, caused by bad government and wicked or evil national leaders
  - act of force which theoretically can have no limits
  - adult issue that affects children of all ages
  - affair which concerns only the military and naval part of two countries
  - ancient art, as old as the land itself
  - area where the voice of the people is very important, as their security is at stake
  - atrocity, and people on all sides are killed
  - awkward term to apply to a conflict in which the balance of forces is so lopsided
  - entity that grinds down minds, bodies, and souls
  - everyday reality for millions of children
  - evil that respects no persons
  - external and internal hell that every veteran, male or female, has experienced
  - industrial process
  - old man's game played by boys
  - between two states
  - capital punishment on a great international scale
  - caused by selfishness on the part of at least one country
  - characterized by chance, uncertainty, and friction
  - corporate welfare
  - created by fears of lack, fears of the foreign, and a desire for control
  - destruction of human life
  - destructive to human society, and it is an intrinsic evil
  - everyday life for millions of children
  - evil, and it is often the lesser evil
  - genocide, torture, cruelty, propaganda, dishonesty, and slavery
  - hatred by other means
  - hell when people are forced to fight, when the limit of consent is breached
  - intended to inflict death and destruction on the enemy
  - justified as defending or promoting the lives or condition of a country's citizens
  - long periods of boredom and brief periods of feverish activity
* is made up by the mind, and poverty and hunger exist through our inefficiencies
  - of things and motion
  - mass murder and ecological tragedy
  - men lying in agony beyond relief or saving
  - neither wrong nor right, but murder and genocide is distinct in that it is wrong
  - often a time for people to come together
  - one human being murdering another human being
* is one of the factors which has contributed to the escalation of crimes
  - great evils in existence
  - results of sin
  - personified with figures standing
  - said to be the continuation of politics by different means
  - seen by many men as even more of an exuse to rape and kill women and children
  - terrorism by the strong and terrorism is the war of the weak
* is the absolute worst thing that human beings can be involved with
  - activity that tightens the weave
  - beast which eats the children
* is the continuation of politics by other means
  - direct opposite of everything peace represents
  - economy basis for a hierarchical society
  - enemy of humanity
  - ex- tension of the practices of the jungle into modern life
  - farthest reaching and most infernal of all civilized calamities
  - form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country
  - greatest form of terror
  - indiscriminate use of weapons
  - leading producer of poverty
  - mass murder of workers
  - mechanism for change in human culture
  - most demanding and complex of human activities
  - natural outgrowth of human nature
  - one arena in which politicians have no place
  - price for freedom
  - principal way of gaining power
  - rule of humanity, with peace the exception to that rule
  - supreme manifestation of human helplessness
  - taking of another's objects by force
  - time when all the knightly virtues and beliefs come into play
* is the ultimate combination of the worship of all the things that they consider their greatest
  - destroyer of economic justice
  - measure of population balance
  - tool of social and political control
  - unfolding of miscalculations
* is the use of fear, pain, and loss to force the other to cooperate
  - military force in combat operations against an armed enemy
* is the worst catastrophe of the human race
  - scourge that destroys men, money, and morals
  - way for people to solve their problems
  - thought to be a karmic repercussion of slaughterhouses
  - to men what childbirth is to women
  - ultimately a reflection of and consequence of sin
  - usually a conflict for land and the persons in the land
  - waste, and waste is the greatest environmental crime
* is when humanity ceases to be human
  - two nations are attempting to coerce each other
  - zero-sum economics at work on an international level
* kill people.
* lead to destroyed or stolen crops and livestock and loss of vital workforce, just for starters.
  - victories
* make billions homeless, injured and bereaved.
* manifestation of much that is repulsive about our species.
* means by which the individual and the group find their identity, and is largely ceremonial
  - tears to thousands of mothers' eyes, when their sons go off to fight and lose their lives
  - the killing of people, the deliberate act of taking human lives
  - violence and organised crime
* moment in the creation of a new social totality.
* multi-faceted event with multiple causes.
* natural part of international relations.
* occur between countries with armies.
* occurs in regions
  - when the level of greed amongst the rich is matched by the envy of the poor
* part of the human condition and movies tend to sanitize the horrors of war.
* permanent feature of the human condition.
* process of physical and psychological negotiation in a situation of extreme uncertainty.
* produce crises which can lead to socialist revolution.
  - the sins of mankind
  - of man's sins
* remains humanity's most destructive activity.
* requires soldiers
  - the mass deployment of a nation's economic, strategic, and psychological resources
* results in death
* rite of passage for men, something akin to children for women.
* seems to be an organic aspect of social behavior.
* sees death.
* series of disasters which result in a winner.
* simply increases the hardship on children and families struggling to gain basic foods.
* social institution.
* sometimes separates marriage companions for one, two or more years.
* spirit taking lives away.
* springs from concentration of power in society, and from authoritarianism.
* start because people forget to consider the individuals in the opposing country.
* state of organized armed conflict between states or non-state actors.
* struggle within individuals as well as between individuals.
* take huge place in human history
  - place less frequently between states, but increasingly within states
* takes a heavy toll on the lives of soldiers and civilians
  - teamwork and cooperation between individuals
* teaches people to go out and destroy other people and to destroy other people's property.
* tend to develop their own rationale, to feed on themselves.
* tends towards the ultimate exertion of forces.
* time when all boundaries of civilization, decency and respect for life often break down.
* too are a common part of Indian mythology.
* usually bring out the best and worst in human nature
  - result in some civilian casualties
* violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children.
* way of life
  - to resolve a conflict when diplomatic means are deemed unsuccessful
* wipe out the accretions of civilizations and culture.
+ Book of Mormon: Mormonism :: Religious texts
  * Usually, Book of Mormon stories show the Nephites as the more righteous, industrious and peaceful people and the Lamanites as wicked, lazy and warlike. Wars happen all the time between the two groups. But, near the end of the book, the Nephites become more wicked than the Lamanites, and all the Nephites die in their last war, except for one named Moroni who was directed by God to bury the Book of Mormon in a hill so that Joseph Smith Jr. could find it.
  * 1988 - Nagorno Karabakh votes to separate from Azerbaijan and join Armenia. War breaks out soon after.
  * War can hurt people on both sides. International law has tried to reduce the harmful effects of war. The signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the development of the United Nations have tried to limit wars.
+ Theatre (warfare)
  * Some wars are fought in one theatre. Other wars are fought in many different theatres. The Napoleonic wars were the first multi-theatre war in modern times.