## What is war?

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Everyone has heard of different wars that took place throughout history or might even still be taking place right now. But do you actually know what a war is exactly? What makes a war, a war and not just a simple conflict between for example two countries?

We call it a war when we refer to a highly organised form of conflict that lasts for an extended period of time. Which comes down to it being a fight that takes a long time. However we contradict ourselfs since there are wars recorded in history that took no time at all. The shortest war in hisrtoy only took 38 minutes!

So now you must be thinking: There must be more reasons for calling a conflict a war besides the timeframe. Well you are right. Officially there are 3 requirements for a war.

1. It must involve two or more groups that are at odds with each other.
2. There is a certain level of organisation amongst these groups.
3. There must be evidence that these groups are fighting to achieve their goals.

Now seeing these requirements it is still a relativly open definition. Because of this there are a lot of conflicts that are being called a war and we have made different types of wars to make it more clear.