Portal:War
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The machinations, encounters and tolls of war |
AboutWar is a state of conflict between relatively large groups of people (such as nations, states, organisations, social groups), which is characterised by the use of armed lethal violence between combatants or upon civilians. Other terms for war, which often serve as euphemisms, include armed conflict, hostilities, and police action. A common perception of war is a series of military campaigns between at least two or more opposing sides involving a dispute over sovereignty, territory, resources, ideology or a host of other issues. A war to liberate an occupied country is sometimes characterised as a "war of liberation", while a war between internal elements of the same state may constitute a civil war. Military history is the recording and analysis of those events in the history of humanity that fall within the category of organised armed conflict, and that relate to the institutions and organisations that prosecute such conflict. |
Featured Article The Nicimian Revolution, also known as the Nicimian Revolt to non-supporters of the People's Revolutionary Front, was a revolutionary wave of protests, riots, strikes, and civil wars, and later a coup d'état, that occurred across the Kingdom of Virassia in 1898. The revolution paved the way to winning control of the eastern provinces of Virassia for the PRF and their supporters, with the region declaring self-rule as the Independent Republic of Nicimia. The national unrest that swept across all of the Virassian Kingdom and its territories severely destabilised the strength of King Othmlia III Michlinof's rule, with even sections of the police and armed forces losing faith in the worthiness of Othmlia as sovereign. At many key points throughout the upsurge, these once ruthless arms of the state systematically disobeyed orders... (read more) |
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