types of war

Question 1

what is a war?

Answer 1

armed conflict where 2 or more groups of people fight eachother with weapons and armys over land or for defending thier country

Question 2

what is a intrastate war?

Answer 2

within the same state/country, known an civil war.

Involves conflict between different groups within the country where opposing factions fight over power or territory

e. g the American civil war

Question 3

what is an interstate war?

Answer 3

war between 2 or more different countries

e.g WWI - how 30 nations joined the war to defend and help and attack eachother.

Question 4

what is limited war?

Answer 4

militaries dont use all available resources for conflict and limit thier targets to only military targets
e. g falklands war between Argentina and the UK with only 74 days of war.

Question 5

what is total war?

Answer 5

All resources and people and people are used and the aim is too overthrow the enemy power/government

e. g wwI how all bombs and soldiers were used and the government constantly trying to get men to sign up

Question 6

what is a Guerrilla warfare

Answer 6

where weaker military forces use irregular tactics to fight against stronger military. involving small mobile running attacks, ambushes and sabotages

e.g irish easter rising where they seized key buildings as a tactic

Question 7

what is a proxy war?

Answer 7

two opposing states use third party forces such as rebels to fight on thier Behalf

e. g Yeman civil war how they used third party groups to fight for them

Question 8

what is a cyber war?

Answer 8

Technology is used to disrupt or disable computer systems, networks or information of thier enemy

e. g Russian cyber attack against US agencies including military and nasa