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
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
