What is war? What is the real meaning of war?

There are plenty of definitions of war that can be

found in dictionaries, in authors an other personalities, and also in history books. Rousseau said
that "War is constituted by a relation between things, and not between person,; that war then is a
relation, not between man and man, but between State and State." (The Social Contract theory).
Thomas Hobbes emphasixed that war is also an attitude: "By war is meant a state of affairs, which
may exist even while its operations are not continued.” A definition from the dictionary states that
“War is a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations”
(Merriam-websters dictionary). From those statments, I can say in my own words that war is a
highly tensioned atmosphere, created from conflicting political, national, social interests that
resulted through the use of arms.
War is what the people most fear about. War is the state where the men in uniform can
apply what they have learned throughout their military training, may it be on sea, air or land.
The air power of a single state is pivotal to its percentage in winning a war. The airpower of a
single nation creates not only big amount of damage to the enemy’s base, but it also creates a
psycological effect amongst them. As what B. H. Liddell Hart has mentioned, “Air Power is, above
all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the
importance of psychological factors in war.” As a result, enemies that have experienced the
effects of ones air power will have a longterm trauma effect, that whenever theyre in to war,
they will be more hesitant because of their opponents air power.
As citizens of the world, majority of us must be able to recognize what war and peace
really is? Why? Because our life depends on it. We cannot call a calm and destruction free
situation a war. It is definitely the opposite of it. War has bad effects on the environment; it
creates fear, destruction, and chaos. People on the other hand can help themselves to avoid
going into war. Simple things like preventing fights within the neighborhood, not speaking bad
things about others, and not showing disgusting geatures to people are simple things that would
make the atmosphere in the earth peaceful. But war is not an end itself. Why? Because people
who engage in war have diffirent reasons. Some are political, some are national, others also
involve religious concerns. For example are the ISIS; war is just the start for them for other
countries to know their religious agenda. For other countries, war is their last result, because
they cannot get their interest amongst nations. Another example is the 9/11 attack on the world
trade center. The terrorist started their act of war through air power. Through a suicide mission,
an aircraft was used to brng down one of america’s towers. For them, that act of war is just the
start of their voice. For America, it was their last resort to finish the conflict and finally have
justice. In that situation, airpower and intelligence was emphasized.
Airpower is such a need for one country to win a war. From Zeppelin airships to propaganda
leaflet drops, Bernard Wilkin discovers the noteworthy part of aerial warfare in World War
One – where it was cast-off on a large measure for the first time.

Aerial warfare was a First World War creation. Planes had been used for attack missions during the
Italo-Turkish war of 1911-1912. Yet, aerial warfare during the First World War marked a
disagreement with these past examples. It was the first conflict during which aircraft were involved
on a large scale and played a significant role.

At the start of the war, the worth of air technologies was met with a certain amount of disbelief by
senior officers on all sides. In fact, aeroplanes were mostly tangled in reflection missions during the
first year of the conflict. However, quick advancement boosted aeroplanes’ performance. After
several years, the fighter planes were developed.
The acknowledgement of the status of aerial photography in scheduling offensives, led to the
need to reject the enemy the same advantage.” The clue of “British sky” over the front, where
the enemy could not go, led to combat between aircraft as they sought to deny each other the
airspace.” Initial air combat utilised unpremeditated weaponries. In the nonappearance aircraft
deployment, pilots equipped themselves, on their own resourcefulness, with pistols, rifles and
grenades. The next rational act was to arm the aircraft itself with machine guns. These were
secured to the front of the machine and aimed merely by directing the aeroplane at the target.
Most records of World War One air power focus on air combat because of its glitzy nature
above the mud-bound war of slow destruction. 

Japanese pilots charged from the skies over Pearl Harbor in Hawaii at 7:55 a.m. on 7 December
1941. Fifty armed forces and 140 bombers bombarded and wrecked the US base. Not as much of than
an hour later, 40 more Japanese fighters and 130 more bombers released their lethal loads. The
Americans were caught off guard. They weren’t ready for an outbreak from the air. The Army and Navy
thought any attack on Pearl Harbor would come through land. Few days before the bombing, they’d
well-organized all planes and ships assembled in groups. They positioned sentinels around the airplanes.
The officers desired to defend against disrupt—the devastation of possessions by enemy agents in time
of war. This move showed catastrophic for the American militaries. For Japanese pilots, the bunches of
planes must have looked like gold.
Lots pivotal battles of World War II were brawled in the air. After Germany gave up in 1945, all
its military leaders and civilian bests who’d been held prisoner approved that air power is the reason for
the victory in war for the Allies. Air power frolicked a tactical role in defining the result of World War II
at some facts.
Air power had a greater part in World War II than it did in World War I. Throughout World War I,
air power was still a fresh idea. This was specifically factual in that war’s initial years. All-metal airplanes
were still new. Grenades were so light that pilots single handedly hold them on their laps and release
them by hand. The pilots’ work was primarily to see enemy sites and sustain ground troops. As the end
of World War I approaches, things were changing. All-metal aircraft were charming the standard. Bombs
assessed as much as 2,000 pounds and some pilots involved in dogfights.
Eventhough that the First World War was fought in trenches. Armymen perished in enormous
figures. No state desired its soldiers to agonize such fatalities ever again. That’s one purpose of the use
of air power adapted so quickly between 1914 and 1918. It’s also the reason of the usage of air power in
the Secind World War. Through this second war, struggled between 1939 and 1945, long-range bombers
had plenty of action. These airplanes could glide above trenches and come in enemy bases. Not only
could fighters defend bombers and passages, they could also drop down grenades.
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