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War Studies

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War Studies at King's College London

Language: English Studies in English
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
University website: www.kcl.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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War
War is a state of armed conflict between states or societies. It is generally characterized by extreme aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties.
War Studies
War studies, sometimes called polemology, is the multi-disciplinary study of war. The word derives from Ancient Greek πόλεμος (pólemos, "war") + -logy".
War
God will see to it that war always recurs as a drastic medicine for the human race.
Heinrich von Treitschke, Politics, Volume I, p. 76.
War
That's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die—and the difference is just an eyelash.
Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscences (1964), p. 145
War
You are there, stay there.
Major-Gen. R. L. Bullard. Citation to American unit which captured Fay's Wood. See N. Y. Herald, Nov. 3, 1919. (Editorial).
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