War
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With the 16th century The Miseries and Disasters of War, French 17th artist Jacques Callot anticipated Goya's Disasters of War, both of them criticizing the horrors of war in their art
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means" --Carl von Clausewitz in On War (1832) |
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War is an organised and often prolonged conflict that is carried out by states or non-state actors. It is generally characterised by extreme violence, social disruption, and economic destruction.
Namesakes
- War (band), a 1970s funk band
- The War Game, a 1965 television film on nuclear war by Peter Watkins
- Krieg dem Kriege (1924) by Ernst Friedrich
- Style war
See also
- Anti-war
- The art of war
- Cannon fodder
- Military-industrial complex
- World War I
- World War II
- World War III
- War of the sexes
- War on Drugs
- Terrorism
- The origin of war
- War crime
- Wartime sexual violence
- War reparations
Namesakes
- Pure War by Virilio
- The Miseries and Disasters of War by Callot
- Bunker Archeology: Texts and Photos by Virilio
- The Disasters of War by Goya
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