World War 3
2007-03-04 15:37:43 · 13 answers · asked by V-Starion 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
the meaning of what war "is" has changed. WWI and II were about power struggle in Europe. They were centered around the old idea of a land grab.
Currently war is about ideas, not land. The kind of war that the Taliban has wagged against the U.S. is ideological. The Taliban has no desire to invade the U.S., but they do want to prove that they are not powerless. The only threat to the U.S.'s power is China, and it is very unlikely that anything would ever come of that. The whole world is getting richer and no one wants to interfere with that (i.e. if there is a war economies will be hurt, which is not in anyone's best interest, unless you have nothing to begin with....like the Taliban).
This is a very interesting question, and I hope I have helped.
2007-03-04 15:52:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could be 28 minutes from now or 280 years from now. When the superpowers square off against each other in two camps, then come back and we'll talk WW III.
Until then, just think regional conflicts, wars between rump states, proxy wars and brinksmanship. If you recall the Yom Kippur War in 1973, a coalition of Arab States (Egypt, Syria and Jordan) were soundly defeated by the Israelis. That was a worse situation than the current conflict and it didn't raise a blip on the world war radar (not that it didn't have the potential to spark a global war).
The next World War will involve a nuclear exchange, how could it not. In the first 30 minutes, nearly a billion people will have been vaporised, mostly in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan. Another 1.5 billion will die shortly thereafter from radiation poisoning. The northern hemisphere will be plunged into prolonged agony and barbarity.
Eventually the nuclear winter will spread to the southern hemisphere and all plant life will die. You ask when world war three will start, you are asking when will we commit global suicide. My answer is it won't happen soon because the larger superpowers are more rational than the rump states in the middle east.
Our biggest risk is an accidental launch of nukes by one of the nuclear powers.
2007-03-05 00:17:37 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are people really naive enough to compare anything in the world today , to what could possibly be called 'WW III'? These teeny boppers on here talking about Bush, and current stuff need to ready about just what a WAR really is. Insurgencies and terrorists don't make a war .... I'm presuming the question is talking about something in the formal parameters of warfare. No, pending the biblical Armageddon there probably won't be. Economics will keep the major nations from ever going to war again .... you just can't compare the globalized society we live in to anything in the past.
2007-03-04 23:47:39 · answer #3 · answered by L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a World War, no. There are too many nuclear weapons, especially in the two most emotionally unstable countries - Russia and America - for a total global conflict. We are living in what the Chinese call "interesting times" at the moment, but as we progress into the century, the threat or war will recede as the reality of climate change and the damage that this will do to our way of living becomes more urgent. Forget war, just brace yourself for the new climatic regime. Regardless of what we do, we can't stop it now - we're 50 years too late.
2007-03-04 23:51:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not an all out war like WWI and WWII. Because if there is it will escalate to nuclear. And then there won't be anyone on this planet left to worry about oil or religion or skin color or the clubbing of fur seals.
War as a means of solving differences is fast coming to a close. Take it from an old bootlegger, there won't be an all out war. we would all lose and the war mongers couldn't buy their new 75 foot yacht's if that happened.
2007-03-04 23:53:31 · answer #5 · answered by Big Al 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only time will tell if there will ever be World War III. But one thing is for certain, there won't be a World War IV.
2007-03-05 00:09:34 · answer #6 · answered by marnefirstinfantry 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, it's only a matter of time. Remember that history repeats itself. After WW III, WW IV will be next.
2007-03-04 23:41:47 · answer #7 · answered by Dowland 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we really need W W 3 to bring better order to the entire world.
this time it will be for oil.
between Moslem's and Christians and Israel will be used as a buffer zone and scapegoat.
2007-03-04 23:44:14 · answer #8 · answered by rajan t 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WWIII has been going on for a few years now. It has not been formally named yet but history will prove me right.
2007-03-04 23:40:46 · answer #9 · answered by Cybeq 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With George W. in office it seems closer and closer to reality everyday.
2007-03-04 23:40:39 · answer #10 · answered by manbearpig 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋