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A 3 page essay on the three types of war: great power, regional, and internal—and the cultural animosities and technologies behind them. The writer supports the argument that the most likely type of war in the future will be internal conflicts. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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and encouraged to end the fighting by those same powers. Cultural animosities and technology play different roles in all of these types of wars, but it is because of
the sophistication of todays technology that wars in the post-Cold War world will be contained within internal conflicts. In 1980, sociologist J.
David Singer wrote that rapid military buildup between nations with equal military forces increases rather than decreases the chance that the two nations will go to war (Singer 349).
Looking at this statement in its simplistic form, it seems hard to refute. What else would cause a military buildup but the possibility of war? Both World
War I and World War II were based on the buildup of weapons-World War I was made possible by Germanys creation of aircraft and long-distance bombing techniques (Moore 16-18).
But this type of war was supplanted by another type of war, which grew out of the process of living down the
embarrassment of Vietnam. After that loss, the United States went on to pursue another approach to war-winning at any cost. As a result the Army practiced war after
war-real and imagined-and that practice centered around the Cold War philosophy of winning an all-out nuclear war. But the rules had changed. Now, the win must come with
zero human losses, and the only way to achieve such a feat was to develop a "grand strategy" (Bacevich 21).
Grand strategy was practiced through a number of well-constructed, inter-armed-force war games. While each of the armed forces remained a separate entity, all of the armed forces worked together to
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