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1. Assignment Submitted to sir
Jaweed Khatak
By
Danish
Reg no; 386-FSS-BSSOC-S15
Department; Sociology Bs 5th
course; International Relation
International Islamic University
Islamabad

2. WAR
Definition;
The state of armed conflict between countries or groups within a country I said to be
war.
Short history of war;
The first war in the history was took place at Mesopotamia (Iran) 2700 BCE between
Sumer and Elam, Sumer was the first urban civilization in southern Iraq and Elam was
the ancient pre Iranian civilization in southwest Iran, Sumer was defeated the Elam
at this war.
Major wars;
The two major wars in the history are world war first and world war second these are
considered the most deadliest war of the history.

3. World war first;
World war first started in Europe in 1914 and end in 1918, about seventy million personnel was
from over 25 countries the location of this war was Europe,Africa,Middle East,Pacific
island,China and Indian ocean.
About nine million warriors and seven million civilians were died in world war first.
World war second;
World war second was started in 1939 and end in 1945 after the lost of 60 to 85 million lives,
hundred million people was involved in this war from 50 countries including
Japan,Italy,Germany, France, Britian,Austrelia,Canada,China and Soviet Union.
Types of war;
There are about 7 types of war which are discussed as under;
The brief explanation of every types of war.

4. Hegemonic war
Those war which is controlled by entire world order or the rule of international
system as a whole, this type of wars are controlled by the world dominant and
powerful countries, world war first and world war second are the example of
hegemonic war where all the dominant countries were fighting each other for
power.
Total war
Those war in which a country fight war against its enemy country to conquer or to
occupy the whole country, to occupy and control the capital city of a country, it
means to control totally the country system as a whole.
Limited war
It is a military action which I being taken to gain some specific goals or to occupy
the specific territory, the recent war of Pakistan army with Taliban is the example
of limited war, it was just to stop terrorism and to maintain peace in a country
which was the specific goals.

5. Civil war(Intra-state war)
Those war which is being fought within a country between different groups or
between public and army, all the types of war which happens within a state are
said to be civil war, example the war in Syria or the Taliban conflict in Pakistan is
the good example of civil war.
Guerrilla war
A war in which small groups of soldiers not belong to regular and stablished unit of
any force engaged fighting against a regular force.
Proxy war
The types of war in which dialogues propaganda and other warfare are used as a
weapons, the best example are the war between Russia and America and Pakistan
and India or Afghanistan proxy war have become very common in modern era
because propaganda and dialogues are used more then weapons, because there is
no possibilities of real war due to being atomic power of every country.

6. Major causes of war
There are some major causes of war which have been briefly discussed as under;
These are the causes which are merely responsible for war.
Economic Gain
Economic gain is the main cause of war because in the history as well as now a days
different conflict are producing just for the resources like oil, minerals, mines, water and
much more, so economic problem is declared to be the main cause of war.
Ineffective Foreign Policy
If the international relation a country become weak there must be the chances of war
because due to weak foreign policy there is a more chances of misunderstanding between
countries and misunderstanding often leads to conflict. So international relation should be
more effective for the better foreign policy of any country.

7. Territorial Gain
There are many war have been fought for the territory so territory is also the main cause
of war, if a country realise that it needs some peace of land for agriculture or for other
purposes then it select the way of war to gain some peace of land.
Religion
Religion is also said to be the main cause of war because there is many war in the history
which are being fought just because of religion, not only history there are also religious
conflict in modern era example Shia and Sunni conflict in Pakistan and Catholic and
Protestant US Cristians.
Nationalism
If a country start war against other country just in aim to express its superiority on other
country, example America is involved in every affair of the world to show its dominancy.

8. Civil War
 If there is civil war in a country there may be the chances of war by other country
because the civil war male the country weak and it encourage the enemy country to
attack.
 Revolutionary War
If the large section of a population of a country strike against the government or other
ruling body is said to be revolutionary war, like Dharna.
Defensive or primitive War
“We will attack them before they attack us”
A defensive war is being fought against other country just because of the fair that they will
attack us, this type of war happens as a defense.

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