Poll: Has war changed?

[darkfire613]

The methods of war have changed, but the motivations remain the same. No matter how far technology progresses, we will always be fighting over resources. Space, food, water, oil, etc. as well as going to war with anyone perceived as evil, not because we necessarily want to stop them, but because we want to look good. Wars will always be fought for greed, greed over resources, greed for attention, or just plain out money.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Yes, dramatically. The nuclear bomb changed the nature of war forever. Yeah, I know. "War never changes". Liam Neeson isn't wrong often, but it does happen.

 

[Paksenarrion]

War. War never changes.

Damn, ninja'd.

War. War has changed.

 

[notsosavagemessiah]

war. war never changes.

yes, i know this has been posted a few times already but it's absolutely true. Bottom line is lots of people killing lots of other people over differing ideolgies. War never changes.

 

[Gigaguy64]

War never changes?

Go watch a movie with a cavalry charge, then go watch a WWI movie with trench warfare, and then watch a movie about the war in Iraq and tell me that war doesn't change.

Well, it doesn't.

The way we fight and the reasons behind a war may change.
But War itself never does.
Its been the same thing since man first fought each other.
People fighting until the opposing side gives up or is destroyed.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

The details and the way we fight have changed, but the basic idea is still the same. Too groups of people killing each other for a cause they don't really understand until one group gives up or doesn't exist.

 

[DanielDeFig]

Yes. War has changed. The technology and tactics have (obviously) changed tremendously, especially recently (enter the age of super-commando teams).

The reasons for waging war has also changed tremedously. From defending and taking territoy as ameans of survival, eventually developed into waging war to forge empires and establish money and power for those who could take it. Today wars are waged for money and power, with almost no interest in gaining territory, invasions are almost nonexistent. Instead, civil wars and foreign intervention are where wars are fought.

Hopefully in the future, the closest thing we will have to wars will be violent uprisings and shifts in governments, instead of fully-fledged civil wars or invasions.

 

[Dr. Whiggs]

War never changes, only the way in which it is fought.

Yeah, the partial Fallout quote isn't winning you any intellectual points when the second half of your statement contradicts the first.

 

[Eumersian]

The fundamental concept of war has changed little:

You have a quarrel with some other kind of people. You kill them so they (the few survivors) know what's what. LET'S ROCK!

But war has changed much on the finer points. I could say that Hannibal's Campaign into Rome is significantly different than Operation Focus in the 1967 Six-Day War. I think I would be right. Technology is made to create more effective tactics and all that good stuff.

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

Well... Yes and no.

Technologically speaking, war has changed dramatically.

Ideologically, not a bit. War is war. The objective is still to kill the enemy.

 

[Death God]

War is war man. Same basic principal with slightly different methods: "Get your point across, kill all who threaten you or your cause, and win"

 

[KaosuHamoni]

War has and it hasn't. The technology used to kill the people over there has changed dramatically, and the stereotype has changed, but the actual core meaning of it is exactly the same and it's generally one of three things.

1. You have something I want, so I'm gonna kill you for it.
2. You haven't done what I want, so I'm gonna kill you for it.
3. You did something I didn't like, so I'm gonna kill you for it.

There is a kinda obvious correlation.

 

[NSGrendel]

 

[Azulito]

I think war has changed. It's hard to say though because there has been no recent 'superpower' conflicts aside from threats.

Since World War 2 and the Cold War, the world has grown closer with frequent travelling and expanding of enteprise. If something were to happen and say America went to war with Britain... I honestly cannot see people fighting eachother because we seem really closely bound, not in politics but it civilian views. In WW2, we barely knew eachother and now we're more diverse and have great knowledge about one another.

But with countries like China and Korea, it makes me feel like war will never change.

 

[mjc0961]

I don't know, okay? Ron Perlman says that war never changes, but Solid Snake insists that war has changed. I'm so confused!