Environmental Effects of War
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN CONDUCT OF WAR
INTRODUCTION
‘‘War is never an isolated act.”
War is a phenomenon of organized violent conflict, typified by extreme aggression, societal disruption and adaptation, and high mortality. Usually a war is a pre-planned activity to begin with by one group or one nation and the group initiates the war by means of violence against the other. The primary feature of this behaviour pattern is a certain state of organized conflict that is engaged in between two or more separate social entities. Such a conflict is always an attempt at altering either the psychological hierarchy or the material hierarchy of domination or equality between two or more groups. In all cases, at least one participant (group) in the conflict perceives the need to either psychologically or materially dominate the other participant. A war state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.
Generally a need for war or domination by one state over other arises when one party feels that the ideology followed by one party is very incompatible and is bothering that nation to extent of causing war. Sometimes the resources of a nation is so scarce, so as to threaten the fundamental existence of one group experiencing the need to dominate the other group. Political Considerations could also be the reason of a war. Leaders will sometimes enter into a war under the pretext that their actions are primarily defensive, though when viewed objectively, their actions may more closely resemble a form of unprovoked, unwarranted, or disproportionate aggression. Apart from these a war could also be fought for territorial gain which means expansion of the territory of one nation, religion asserting that one religion is superior than the other, nationalism by asserting that one country is better than the other and therefore it has a right to dominate the other. Resources are always the biggest and one the foremost reasons for any war.
INTRODUCTION
‘‘War is never an isolated act.”
War is a phenomenon of organized violent conflict, typified by extreme aggression, societal disruption and adaptation, and high mortality. Usually a war is a pre-planned activity to begin with by one group or one nation and the group initiates the war by means of violence against the other. The primary feature of this behaviour pattern is a certain state of organized conflict that is engaged in between two or more separate social entities. Such a conflict is always an attempt at altering either the psychological hierarchy or the material hierarchy of domination or equality between two or more groups. In all cases, at least one participant (group) in the conflict perceives the need to either psychologically or materially dominate the other participant. A war state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.
Generally a need for war or domination by one state over other arises when one party feels that the ideology followed by one party is very incompatible and is bothering that nation to extent of causing war. Sometimes the resources of a nation is so scarce, so as to threaten the fundamental existence of one group experiencing the need to dominate the other group. Political Considerations could also be the reason of a war. Leaders will sometimes enter into a war under the pretext that their actions are primarily defensive, though when viewed objectively, their actions may more closely resemble a form of unprovoked, unwarranted, or disproportionate aggression. Apart from these a war could also be fought for territorial gain which means expansion of the territory of one nation, religion asserting that one religion is superior than the other, nationalism by asserting that one country is better than the other and therefore it has a right to dominate the other. Resources are always the biggest and one the foremost reasons for any war.