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War is an international relations dispute, characterized by organized violence between national military units. In his seminal work “On War”, Carl Von Clausewitz calls war the “continuation of political intercourse, carried on with other means.” War is an interaction in which two or more militaries have a “struggle of wills”. When qualified as a civil war, it is a dispute inherent to a given society, and its nature is in the conflict over state governance rather than sovereignty. War is... full article at wikipedia

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film	initial release date
Wag the Dog	Dec 17, 1997
Shame	1968
A Bridge Too Far	1977
Gladiator	May 5, 2000
Apocalypse Now	May 10, 1979
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Guernica	Pablo Picasso
The Face of War	Salvador Dalí
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There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.	Laozi	Tao Te Ching
The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.	J. Michael Straczynski	Babylon 5: The Gathering	Jeffrey Sinclair
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind…	J. Michael Straczynski	Signs and Portents	Jeffrey Sinclair
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.	George Orwell
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.	Albert Einstein
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.	George Santayana
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.	Thomas Hobbes
I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.	Benjamin Franklin
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.	Lewis Mumford
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