WAR & THE ELEMENTS OF WAR

"WAR AND THE ELEMENTS OF WAR" is designed to enlarge the reader's understanding of why and how wars start, how they are conducted, and how and why they end. 

In response to the foundational question,"Will there always be wars, and if yes, why?" the answer by a military man was, "Yes. Because there is money in it."

WAR

War has been with the human race as it evolved from its animal form. The difference between war and animalistic attacking behaviors in the everlasting search for food and procreation partners lies in the growth of the brain and consciousness of possessions as desirable goals of life. Acquisition of the things that enhanced their lives and wealth accumulation came into their own as nomadic hunter-gatherer societies began to be replaced by rooted societies that grew food and began to domesticate animals. Toolmakers, craftsmen, builders, and hunters, within sedentary agricultural societies, began to create, store, and provide goods and services that could be accumulated, stored, and exchanged for others’ goods and services in sedentary communities that grew in defensible geographic topographies near sources of water, arable land, and other useful natural resources. Societies of sedentary peoples began to grow in classes that distinguished individuals and families and tribes from one another. The powerful were no longer the physically strongest and best hunters and skilled fighters.  Possession of assets, natural and created, and needed or desired, with which to compensate others for their services, became the symbols and measures of leadership and power.

In this transitory period that began about thirteen thousand years ago, classes that exhibited a variety of characteristics such as, acquired possessions, talents, and coping skills in response to their environments and natural enemies, other survival skills, developed. Over time, richer and poorer and smarter and less smart, separated into powerful and powerless classes. And a new kind of classes developed that interceded between the richer and poorer and the weaker and more powerful in societies. Royal, religious, professional, and generally more wealthy, more intelligent, better educated, and more imposing in a variety of ways, these classes separated themselves from the masses and in many ways became the leaders in their differing variegated societies.

A third class of humans grew in most societies; intermediaries. With awareness of a weakness in the “lower” class, they became their "representatives."   These delineated societies also began to differentiate themselves in that same time period of development of sedentary societies. Languages, geographies, different gods, different economies, different physiognomies, climates, cultures and histories, led to pre-nation identities.

Competition might be the best term to provide insight into the “Why” of war. Competition grew from animalistic behaviors mandated by survival instincts to intelligent behaviors devoted to acquiring power, power being measured by the ownership of wealth – in turn measured by the quantities of things owned, such as land and castles, gold, slaves, cattle, factories, and all things and assets coveted by others.  

Humanistic behavior might be the best term to distinguish peaceful behavior from warlike behavior. The tragedy of mankind lies in the derogation and belittlement of humanistic behaviors.  Thus, war will be with mankind until wealth accumulation ceases to be the primary motivation of humans and the societies they create.

THE ELEMENTS OF WAR

Each of these elements will be explored in coming chapters

THE PARTICIPANTS IN WAR

THE HISTORY OF WAR

HOW WARS START

WHO STARTS WARS

OVERT STARTERS  OF WARS

SURREPTITIOUS STARTERS OF WARS

THE ROLE OF GEOGRAPHY JN WAR

THE ROLE OF ETHNICITY IN WAR

THE ROLE OF HISTORY IN WAR

THE ROLE OF POLITICS IN WAR

THE ROLE OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN WAR

THE ROLE OF LEADERS IN WAR

THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN WAR

THE ROLE OF CHILDREN IN WAR

THE ROLE OF AGENTS PROVACATEURS IN WAR

THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN WARS

THE ROLE OF PATRIOTISM IN WAR

THE ECONOMICS OF WAR

THE SUFFERERS OF WARS

THE BENEFICIARIES OF WAR

THE ROLE 0F THE MILITARY IN WAR

WAR PLANS

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR

REVOLUTIONS

COUNTER REVOLUTIONS

SPIES & INTELLIGENCE

TRAITORS

GOOD WARS

COLD WARS

GOVERNMENTS  &  WAR

SCIENCE AND WAR  

BAD WARS

 PREDICTABLE WARS

HOW WARS END

OUTCOMES OF WARS

SALESMEN OF WARS

CUSTOMERS OF WARS

EDUCATING TOWARD WAR

SAVAGES & SOPHISTICATES

NEUTRAL SWITZERLAND

NON-COMBATANTS

RULES OF WAR

ALLIES & ALLIANCES

WARS AGAINST ISRAEL

RATIONALE FOR WARS AGAINST ISRAEL AND SIMILAR CONFLICTS

MAY 28, 2011

Will there always be war?  Yes!  Against Israel?  Probably? Why?  There’s money to be made at it.

So, where’s the money in the wars against Israel by the Muslim, Arab, Islamic world coming from?  Who is paying it?  Who benefits from it? Who started the wars?  Who keeps them going?

And, as a corollary to those questions, “Will it ever end?”

The answer to the corollary is, “No, but only so long as money can be made from it.”

So, who is making the money?  Where does the money come from?

Power Elites, the Kings and Queens, their Knights, Bishops and Business Kingdoms, make the money.  The Pawns pay for it. They pay the actual money, the fruits of their labor, and they pay with their lives and blood. Every revolution in history, led by masses of lower classes, led to a new or hidden power elite of religious leaders, wealthy barons, military hierarchies, and patriotic orators who then became the rulers, the oligarchs and Mullas, the upper echelon of the military, who controlled the countries.

How does this happen?

Beneficiaries of war, the Power Elites, are the owners of and are in control of the means and needs of war.  They control the political process that leads nations to war and they control the weapons of war through manufacture or purchase. And finally, they are partners with the educators of the pawns who conduct the actual war.  Those education partners are the religious institutions of the nations, the teachers of patriotism, and the acceptable graduates of military institutions. 

All of these educators use fear to motivate the people to war. The tools of fear are simple and powerful.  You have lost what you had and the enemy will never give it back without a fight.  Your country, your land, your job, your family, are what the “other” wants and plans to take from you.  Your religion and belief in your Gods is in danger from infidels and non-believers.  They will destroy and desecrate your holy places.  They are savages who will rape your wives, tear your children limb from limb, gouge out your eyes and cut your throat.  Let’s beat them to it!

This is the simple part of starting a war.

Three elements are necessary for a successful war. Sellers, Buyers, and merchandise carriers.  Each of these elements belong to a class and must be educated and equipped to fulfill their roles. The Sellers belong to and are the Power Elites.  The Buyers are the governments of nations, quietly controlled by the Power Elites. And the merchandise carriers are the merchants, airmen, sailors, and soldiers, the medical units, the intelligence arms, the trainers of the pawns in methods of killing and methods of dying. And all of them are preachers of patriotism and God and Right is are on Our side.

And the non-warriors, old folks, needed producers, provide the funds for war by harvesting and selling the crops, making and selling the goods, working and earning their wages, and all paying their taxes to the kings and queens, the presidents and prime ministers, the governments that clothe their children, and equip them for war and killing, and dying, all with the fruits of their own labor, with their hard-earned money.

War partners are economic partners.  Value systems be damned! Kingdoms, sheikdoms, democracies, dictatorships, can all be partners.  You have oil.  I have guns.  You have land.  I have rice. We oligarchies and we democracies can always get along.  That is, unless you will not give me what I want or the other way around.  I’ll take care of starting the war.  You take care of soldiering it.  We’ll cooperate on the seas but not on the land or in the air.  We work it out.  You have what I want and I have what you want and if Iraq or Germany or Russia or Darfur or Israel or Egypt or Bosnia gets in the way, that’s perfect.  Let’s us sign a “Peace Accord.”  For now, let’s keep it, “All Quiet on the Western Front.”