What is the root cause of war?

Question

Y does it happen

Answer 1

i agree with trixie!!
war is just old men fighting, young men dying!!!

Answer 2

Greed or insanity.

There are a few people on this planet who feel that they have a right to control all the others, and they will stop at nothing to acheive their desires. They have already succeeded in gaining a leadership position, and now want to expand their power.
It only needs about half a dozeb people in high places to start a war which kills and maims thousands.
I believe the root cause is insanity in government!

Answer 3

Many people foolishly believe that it is religion but that is not so. It stems from man's natural greed and his attempts to dominate others (usually both motives are interlinked. From the neo-lithic man to present day, the need for survival has pushed men to conflict. Previously it was the need to obtain better lands, hunting grounds or even better caves. During the reigns of Ghenghis Khan and even Attila, religion wasn't the problem, it was greed. In Polyponesia, wars were fought for possesion, women but also for food as many of the various tribes were cannibalistic. During the various Shogunates of Japan, it was possession of both land as well as the serfs that caused battles. During the 4,000 years of Chinese history, China was divided into fiefdoms and battles raged for control of land and resources. Vietnam and China fought a war for about 1,000 years as Vietnam was an agriculturally rich country and was called 'the rice bowl of Southeast Asia'. Even the American Revolution was one of greed as the crown imposed tea and newsprint tax on the colonies to subsidize their tea trade with China. The Civil War was not about freedom of the slaves but about the agricultural South require slave labor and the industrialized North not needing un-trained laborers.The Opium Wars were caused by the greed of the British, attempting to addict a nation to the drug so as to make a profit rather than spend money on tea and trade goods from China.(They were very successful and later Americans became involved...one company was named Rooseveldt-Delano...sound familar?) The Zulu wars again were a matter of possession...the Zulus resisted and the British sent troops...supplied with the new Maxim Gun and 30 men killed over 2,000 Zulus in a single battle. We need not consider WW I or WW II as both were expansionistic wars...'libenstraum' and the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and China were the same. The Korean War is exactly the same. The Vietnam War began when France wanted to re-assert its authority over the country in 1945, as Vietnam also produces a considerable amount of rubber (ever hear of Michelin Tires) as well as other goods. After the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu, there was a conflict between the leaders (similar to Chairman Mao Tse Tung and Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek) and the US jumped into a domestic war as there was and still is the possibility of oil resources off shore under the guise of the domino theory. The present war is not very different as we have vested interests in maintaining a continuous flow of oil....enough said.

Answer 4

2317 Injustice, excessive economic or social inequalities, envy, distrust, and pride raging among men and nations constantly threaten peace and cause wars. Everything done to overcome these disorders contributes to building up peace and avoiding war:

"Insofar as men are sinners, the threat of war hangs over them and will so continue until Christ comes again; but insofar as they can vanquish sin by coming together in charity, violence itself will be vanquished and these words will be fulfilled: ‘They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more’" (GS 78; cf. Is. 2:4].

Answer 5

All wars have a common cause: geopolitics. The US goes to war in the Middle East because of oil; Germany advances towards the URSS because of her inmense oil and grain reserves; geopolitics refer to all factors, economical, political, that determine the survival of a nation.

Answer 6

There have been wars since the beganing of time, they are necessary you know, otherwise our earth would become over populated, but in a true war, I've always thought you were supposed to kill them all and let God sort them out.

Answer 7

My feeling is that all people's human nature is to fear the "unknown" which includes people of other races and religions. Since most groups want people like them to dominate over the "others" who are not like themselves, that is when people will find all sorts of ways to convince large groups of people to wage war, in the hopes that their "kind" will end up more powerful, or "the winner".

Answer 8

Ignorance and the love of power.

My favorite quote is by Jimi Hendrix, which very much pertains to war, "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

Answer 9

The inability of people to compromise in a situation.

The failure of people to tolerate others that have different beliefs, ideals, religions, or living practices.

Exploitation of a sovereign nation or established group of people by another person or a group of people for personal gain and power.

Answer 10

Hatred created to take over land and become more powerful if there are riches there, or be a delusionary
maniac ruler of a country and want to take over the world.

Answer 11

i think that the root cause to war is pure evil