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Outline of war

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to war:

War – organised and often prolonged armed conflict that is carried out by states or non-state actors – is characterised by extreme violence, social disruption, and economic destruction.[1][2] War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of political violence or intervention.[1][3]


Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general.[4]

Asymmetric warfare

Expeditionary warfare

Expeditionary maneuver warfare

List of wars by death toll

Military theory

Philosophy of war

Principles of war

War cycles

– Latin expression meaning the justification for acts of war. In theory, present international law allows only three situations as legal cause to go to war: out of self-defense, defense of an ally under a mutual defense pact, or sanctioned by the UN.

Casus belli

Declaration of war

Surrender

Capitulation

Victory

Debellatio

War effort

War economy

The Art of War

On War

List of military writers

Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod: Encyclopedia of Wars. Facts On File, Inc., 2005,  0-8160-2851-6. (With about 1,800 wars, this is probably the most complete overview in English language).

ISBN

R. Ernest Dupuy, Trevor N. Dupuy: The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History. From 3500 B.C. to the Present. 4th Edition, HarperCollins Publishers, 1993,  978-0062700568. (With about 1,300 wars this is probably the second most complete overview in English language, with the added value to summarize about 4,500 battles).

ISBN

Vittorio Ferretti: Weltchronik der Kriege und Demozide - Ein Abriss der Ursachen, Abläufe und Folgen von über 5.000 gewalttätig ausgetragenen Konflikten bis zum Jahr 2000. Amazon, 2014,  978-3000403538. (With over 5,000 conflicts, this German book is by far the most complete overview published in any language until now. Its added value is to include democides into its scope).

ISBN

World History Database

Listing of all wars

Newspaper by translated into different languages listing all wars

Martin John Callanan

Correlates of War Project

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry

– A database on the human impact of conflicts and other complex emergencies.

Complex Emergency Database (CE-DAT)

World War I primary source collection

– International Committee of the Red Cross website

International humanitarian law

– Treaties and States Parties

International humanitarian law database

Customary IHL Database

War zone safety travel guide from Wikivoyage