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Types

Main article: Types of war

War must entail some degree of confrontation using weapons and othermilitary technology and equipment by armed forces employing military tactics andoperational art within a broad military strategy subject to military logistics. Studies of war by military theorists throughoutmilitary history have sought to identify thephilosophy of war, and to reduce it to amilitary science.

Ruins of Guernica (1937).

1. TheSpanish Civil War was one of Europe’s bloodiest and most brutal civil wars.

Modern military science considers several factors before a national defence policy is created to allow a war to commence: the environment in the area(s) of combat operations, the posture that national forces will adopt on the commencement of a war, and the type of warfare that troops will be engaged in.

1. Asymmetric warfare is a conflict between two populations of drastically different levels of military capability or size.

2. Biological warfare, or germ warfare, is the use of weaponized biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

3. Chemical warfare involves the use of weaponized chemicals in combat. Poison gas as a chemical weapon was principally used during World War I, and resulted in an estimated 1.3 million casualties, including 100,000–260,000 civilians. Tens of thousands or more civilians and military personnel died from chemical weapon use.[14]

4. Civil war is a war between forces belonging to the same nation or political entity.

5. Conventional warfare is declared war between states in which nuclear, biological, orchemical weapons are not used or see limited deployment.

6. Cyberwarfare involves the actions by a nation-state or international organization to attack and attempt to damage another nation’s information systems.

7. Nuclear warfare is warfare in which nuclear weapons are the primary, or a major, method of achieving capitulation.

8. Total war is warfare by any means possible, disregarding the laws of war, placing no limits on legitimate military targets, using weapons and tactics that result in significant civilian casualties, or demanding a war effort that requires significant sacrifices by the friendly civilian population.

9. Unconventional warfare, the opposite of conventional warfare, is an attempt to achieve military victory through acquiescence, capitulation, or clandestine support for one side of an existing conflict.

10. War of aggression is a war for conquest or gain rather than self-defense; this can be the basis of war crimes under customary international law.