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War – Definition and Basic Concepts
What is war? Finding an answer to this is difficult, for war changes and depends on cultures and centuries. Nevertheless, certain attributes are ascribed to it: Legitimisation always presents war as just and necessary. Violence – executions, rapes, massacres – becomes part of everyday life. Propaganda uses enemy stereotypes to create a permanent sense of threat. In addition, wars are waged symmetrically or asymmetrically, meaning traditionally on or off the battlefield. Often both happens at the same time – as for example in the Thirty Years’ War, where marauding mercenary groups attack the civilian population independently of the symmetrically fighting armies. | In this film version, German interviews and historical or literary quotes remain untranslated.
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