Lawrence Freedman

Lawrence Freedman

Lawrence Freedman

Experience of War

According to the Lawrence Freedman the war has the following features in common with disasters, such as:

Cause great human suffering affecting the physical and mental health of the population.

Exceed local response capabilities to respond to the displaced and injured.

Pollute or destroy the environment.

Affect or destroy the essential basic services.

Affect or destroy the productive infrastructure, housing and / or public buildings.

The psychological and psychiatric consequences.

The experience of vulnerability and danger, of helplessness and terror can dial in depth the psyche of people, particularly children. The spectacle of rape or torture, murder or mass executions, bombing and razing or destruction of entire villages is almost traumatizing need surpasses the reaction mechanisms of the individual to extreme situations. Currently, over 80 percent of victims are civilians in 100 armed conflicts of the past ten years.

The Causes of War

According to the Lawrence Freedman the main causes of the war are various such as:

Ideological differences and the exchange of charges and the dispute were ideological.

The spread of communism in eastern Europe and southeast Asia

The emergence of communist parties active in Western Europe of capitalism.

The emergence of a global class struggle between the people

Equal in power between the Soviet Union and the United States of America

For the soviet union on the territorial gains after world war II

The arms race, and possession of the atomic bomb the soviet union, no longer limited to the USA

The desire of political forces to use armed struggle to achieve a variety of foreign and domestic purposes.

Because equality is derived by mutual mistrust.

Because of mutual distrust in the war.

In the absence of the civil war there is always all against all.

With the rise in the century of mass armies, an important tool for community mobilization for war was the hatred, intolerance towards anyone or anything to a stranger, a stranger, unaccustomed, the perception of others as incomprehensible, inconceivable, and therefore, dangerous and hostile.

On the other hand, European societies have experienced devastating wars of the century; have sought to live in peace. Very often the members of these communities live in fear of any shocks. On the other scale, war is divided into global and local (conflicts).

War and the Military Establishment

The presence of a powerful military capacity to cause significant harm to the opposing side has always been a deterrent to an open confrontation and war, of which the adoption of nuclear weapons on arms has become crucial. At the beginning of the nuclear era, when the superiority of the nuclear potential was maintained for the United States, views on Western military experts to be used mainly to intimidate potential enemies to keep from armed attack, and during active hostilities in situations where avoid defeat was not possible. Theoretically, before the use of nuclear weapons, intended to warn the enemy of the threat of nuclear attack. In the case of ignoring the warning intended to apply one or a few selected "disarming" strikes with the application of the opposing side of the ...