World War III?

Question

Will World War 3 happen wthin this lifetime? (within next 80 years)

Answer 1

Let me preface, that there are many fear mongers out there and particularly on the net and in media. Fear grabs your attention. In our techno- jaded, frenetic, stressed out world fear is about the only sure thing that the media can bank on to keep ratings up.
Fear is about one of the most sure ways to sell a book or paper, it is the merchandising of men's souls. In addition the regualr populous is increasinly collateral damage in the growing world of psyops between governments that is increasingly taking place on the internet. Psyops, psychological propaganda and disinformation spread by covert government entities to effect enemy government populations and cause moves like in a chess game by the opponent. Unfortunately, the regular person that reads or comes across this stuff does not know if it is real or not but it creates fear and uncertainty anyway.

With the evolution of warfare that we are seeing happen right now it is not likely that we will see WW III soon. The change taking place from the traditional nation state armed conflicts to the presently growing asymetrical warfare is dimmishing the odds of a global World War as we experienced in the 1900s.
The only events that would embolden a global alliance to triger another world war would be a nuclear attack, or a natural event that created a period of critical instability like a comet impact of massive proportions. Energy is not running out, in anwar alone there is nearly 30 years of oil supply, and the U.S. and Canada have pioneered and developed technology that allows us to go to all the old tapped out oil wells and extract the oil left in the sand around the caverns that once held oil, this remaining oil in the sand is greater than the oil that was in the caverns themselves, this technology of course will not be used until the more affordable liquid oil is depleted but is enough oil extraction from those old oil beds to provide energy for about another 100 years. In addition, there is enogh coal in the U.S. to provide energy for the U.S. for nearly 300 years. This coal is not being used because oil is cleaner and unless it is a necessity it is taking a back seat to enviromental concerns -- but it is availible.

Think tanks and forward looking people consider the dawning of what some are calling The Pax Americana, comparable in some respects to the relative era of Pax Romana of the Roman Empire. This Pax (or age of Peace) was the result of Rome's campagin against its own terrorist of the day called the barbarians which the popular movie Gladiator shows one of the final battles of by Marcus Aurelius. If one looks , at the global alignment of nations there are less than half a dozen that would pose any challenge at all for the present American position. These are being kept in dialogue and growing amiable relations as a result -- Russia, China, India , the Eu and possibly a few others. Korea or the Middle East are not mentioned because if we applied real warfare to them like we used against the Germans in WW II their would be nothing left within weeks. Korea and the Middle East have terroist Bombers or maybe a nuke but the they do not have a sustainable military complex capable of rapidly creating and sustaining grinding , bone-crushing war, which would quickly eliminate all but a few the already mentioned countries. At present the U.S. is purposefully , and with delicate focus executing one of the most antiseptic, neo-wars in history to try and minimize casualties and loss -- to grasp this compare it to previous wars and you will be astounded at the difference and the success.

Each generation wants to look at there time and consider that its problems are more dire than the generations that proceeded it. If you look at history, our problems are no more dire it is just with our global think mentality provided by instant around the world coverage and excessive focus we have made problems grow to a level of anxiety contemplating proportions. So without some parlor room psychic trick of predicting when the next WW will be,
all we have are the realties free from the fear mongering hype that we are in a transistion to assymetrical warfare, which by its very nature indicates an opponent considered so over-whelmingly strong that it will not be faced head to head. And then we have a few rougue nations bragginf about developing a nuclear bomb -- in perspective the U.S. completed that science five decades ago, the very fact of that shows the difference in thecnology, rest assured fifty years late the U.S. has military capability that no one knows about , just like the atom bomb that few knew existed until if was used to the astonishment of the world. Have a little faith , do not be so fatalistic. Honestly, you and I and most everyone else only know a fraction of what is really going on but I am smart enough to know that if our most vocal enemies are bragging about creating something that we created nearly half a century ago there is not much to worry about on a global WW scale, just put it in perspective and think about it.

Answer 2

Probably not.
In order to have a "World War" there has to be a degree of parity between the nations or groups of nations. Right now, there isn't.
While the US is busy misusing its elite troops as policemen, trying to make the Iratees and the Afghouls act like democratic Europeans, the illusion is generated that there may be some kind of weakness there. But that would be a major misconception.
See, soldiers make lousy cops. When you make them do policework, they appear to be incompetant.
The American military did what it was supposed to do in Desert Storm ... crush the Iraqi army (which was touted as the "third or fourth most powerful army in the world" at the time) and they did it in a couple-three weeks with incredibly few casualties, advancing on a known route into the enemy's own territory. But trying to use this superb military to play "peace-keepers" has been a disaster, as was predicted at the time.
So we feel a general uneasiness, watching them flail and flounder and die from snipers and IEDs on a daily basis amidst the "growing chaos." We start to feel doom and gloom.
Don't worry, though. Once we get the moron out of the White House, and his toadies cleaned out of the Capitol, the Army can go back to being what they are -- un-freaking-stoppable.
No, there won't be a WWIII in this lifetime, puddin', 'cause there's no nation in the world, and few groups of nations, that can even begin to challenge the US.
Hoo-ah.

Answer 3

Have you heard of the Yom Kippur war in 1973, Israel vs a coalition of Arab nations....Egypt, Syria and Jordan. That was worse than the current situation.....it didn't raise a blip on the world war scenario (not that it didn't have the potention as a spark)...just relegated to the heap of regional conflicts between rump states. When the strategic super powers square off into two camps, then come back and we'll talk world war.

Until then, just think regional conflicts, proxy wars, sabre rattling and brinksmanship.... After the next world war, we'll be back into the stone age and you won't have to worry whether a world war occurred or not. Will it occur in our lifetime? Most likely not, but if it does, it probably will be the result of an accidental launch by Russian ICBM responding to their aging early warning systems that thought NATO or the US had launched against them, instead it was a computer foul-up.

Answer 4

222 days from the Muslim riots in Paris;
333 days from the London Train Bombings;
444 days from the second anniversary of the Iraq Invasion;
555 days from November 28, 2004 (the 333rd day of the year, with 33 remaining);
666 in the date pattern and the pattern until the end of the Mayan calendar;
777 days from the foiled Sears Tower Attack.

With people posting predictions and prophecies every minute it is hard not to believe the world is coming to an end. The biggest problem is that world war 3 would be the end of the world as we know it!!!! (Nuclear War) Can it happen in our life time? YES, it is only the push of a button away!!!!!!

Answer 5

there so many conflict now that we can't guess which scenario: it would be musulm versus christian, north Korea versus South Korea, Iran versus the world.
I hope tha will not happen: it would be the end of the world!

Answer 6

Yes it is possible,
Some countries are making nuclear bombs,
But organisasions like the U.N. are trying to prevent it,
There's hope and a chance too that it wont happen.

Answer 7

it will be muslims against christians but not yet coz christians is far strong than muslims no but if we add china and asia to muslims it could be a big war

Answer 8

you're in the wrong category this is history , the place for questions about things that already took place , not for things that perhaps will happen

Answer 9

it can happen any time now because all depends on a mistake by a fool.

Answer 10

It may be 5 years old already :-(