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Role of war in human society is estimated in different ways:
* To negative consequences of wars it is possible to attribute that complex, which is designated as humanitarian accident: hunger, epidemics, population movings. Modern wars are connected with huge human and material losses, with unknown before destructions and disasters. For example, losses in wars of the European countries (killed and died of wounds and illnesses) are the following: in XVII century - 3,3 million people, in XVIII century - 5,4, in XIX and the XX century beginning (to the First World War) - 5,7, in the First World War - above 9, in the Second World War (including victims in fascist concentration camps) - over 50 million people.
* To positive consequences of wars they attribute information interchange (thanks to Talassky fight Arabs found out a secret of a paper manufacturing from Chineses) and «acceleration of the march of history» (left Marxists consider war by the social revolution catalyst), and also removal of contradictions (war as the dialectic moment of negation at Gegel). Some researchers attribute also to positive for a human society in whole (not for the person) the following factors:
1. War returns biological selection in human society. By that the posterity is left by the most adapted for a survival people, as in usual conditions of human community the action of the biology laws a partner choice is strongly weakened;
2. For the period of military actions all interdictions, which are imposed on a human being in a society during usual time, are lifted. As consequence, war can be considered as a way and a method of removal of psychological pressure within the limits of the whole society.
3. The fear of imposing of another's will, fear in the face of danger is exclusive stimulus to technical progress. It is no accident that many novelties are invented and appear at first for military needs and only then find the application in a peace life.
Wars of the Ancient world
* Aggressive campaigns of the ancient states for the purpose of enslavement of the tribes, which were at lower stage of social development, gathering of a tribute and capture of slaves (for example, Gallic war, Marcomannic war, etc.);
* International wars for the purpose of occupation and a robbery of the defeated countries (for example, Punic wars, the Greek-Persian wars);
* Civil wars between various aristocratic groups (for example, diadochos wars for division of empire of Alexander the Great in 321-276 BC);
* servile insurrections (for example, servile insurrection in Rome under the guidance of Spartak);
* popular outbreak of peasants and handicraftsmen (insurrection of «red-broweds» in China).
Middle Ages wars
* Religious wars: Crusades, Jihad;
* Dynastic wars (for example, The Wars of Roses in England);
* Wars for creation of the centralised national states (for example, war for association of Russian lands round Moscow in XIV-XV centuries);
* Peasant revolts against the government (for example, Jacquerie in France, Ivan Bolotnikov's peasant revolt in Russia).
Wars of New and Newest times
* Colonial wars of the capitalist countries for enslavement of the people of Asia, Africa, America, Oceania (for example, Opium Wars);
* Aggressive wars of the states and coalitions of the states for hegemony (for example, Northern war, the Korean war, Ethiopian Eritrean War of Independence), wars for world supremacy (the Seven Years' War, the First and the Second World War);
* The Civil wars accompanying development of socialist and bourgeois-democratic revolutions. Often civil wars merge with wars against external intervention (Civil war in China);
* National-liberation wars of the people of the dependent and colonial countries against colonizers, for an establishment of the state independence or for its preservation, against attempts to restore a colonialism (for example, the Algerian war; colonial war in Portugal, etc.). |
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