War, history reveals that it was always fought for two reasons ‘Land and Love’. As men moved on, his purpose of war and motivation for the same started changing. A major stride towards this happened in the middle of 19th century with the evolution of imperialist concepts for the prosperity of developed nations. The rapid industrialization in the western world accelerated the rate of colonization for the control of natural resources. In no time the western world realized the necessity of a huge military for reinforcing their dominance in this small divided world. Many new concepts emerged with the extinction of many old, but human love for power and money remains omnipotent till date.
With the advent of modern science and technology, humans found many new mechanisms for mass destruction. The evolution of fighter planes, satellites, nuclear bombs, nuclear powered super carriers, ballistic missiles, all makes the statement concrete. 2009 saw the world spending 2 trillion for building up their military. Major chunk has been spent for the procurement of new weapons.
We saw World War I and II killing almost 30 million with another million added by the follow up wars created by Cold War power projection and conflict between communist and capitalist countries. We have seen many leaders coming up with new strategies for peace, most of which have never seen the light of the day. The destructive power of the modern war was revealed in the German Genocide of the Jews, American usage of Little Boy, biological weapons in Vietnam and Cluster bombs in Afghanistan. Never before, humans preferred mass destruction to bring an end to the war soon.
In a more disturbing scenario, industrial countries are competing for the establishment of Military Industrial complex which generally involve in arms export to third world countries. This is evident from the recent war on terror where Taliban fought Americans with arms produced in America. This has happened in the past and will happen in future. Have you ever imagined how these terrorists are supplied with high precision weapons or how the revolutionist happened to gain control of highly secured government armory? The close observation reveals that illegal arms export generally happens with the knowledge of the involved countries. The simple fact is that it’s their duty to keep markets open for these military industrial complexes whose major stake holders constitute the top government officials. Also the revenue these arms exports contribute to government is simply not negligible.
Furthermore, ‘Minimum Deterrence’, as the reason for arms race has been regularly communicated through media. They are well aware that people never know what the level of minimum deterrence is. It’s an adage that ‘War is Hell’, something which we speak and realize daily in our life. But we sympathize with those affected by realizing that ‘Humans fought wars, Humans are fighting wars and Humans will fight war’. But what needs to be understood is, as Jimi Hendrix said ‘When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace’.
With the advent of modern science and technology, humans found many new mechanisms for mass destruction. The evolution of fighter planes, satellites, nuclear bombs, nuclear powered super carriers, ballistic missiles, all makes the statement concrete. 2009 saw the world spending 2 trillion for building up their military. Major chunk has been spent for the procurement of new weapons.
We saw World War I and II killing almost 30 million with another million added by the follow up wars created by Cold War power projection and conflict between communist and capitalist countries. We have seen many leaders coming up with new strategies for peace, most of which have never seen the light of the day. The destructive power of the modern war was revealed in the German Genocide of the Jews, American usage of Little Boy, biological weapons in Vietnam and Cluster bombs in Afghanistan. Never before, humans preferred mass destruction to bring an end to the war soon.
In a more disturbing scenario, industrial countries are competing for the establishment of Military Industrial complex which generally involve in arms export to third world countries. This is evident from the recent war on terror where Taliban fought Americans with arms produced in America. This has happened in the past and will happen in future. Have you ever imagined how these terrorists are supplied with high precision weapons or how the revolutionist happened to gain control of highly secured government armory? The close observation reveals that illegal arms export generally happens with the knowledge of the involved countries. The simple fact is that it’s their duty to keep markets open for these military industrial complexes whose major stake holders constitute the top government officials. Also the revenue these arms exports contribute to government is simply not negligible.
Furthermore, ‘Minimum Deterrence’, as the reason for arms race has been regularly communicated through media. They are well aware that people never know what the level of minimum deterrence is. It’s an adage that ‘War is Hell’, something which we speak and realize daily in our life. But we sympathize with those affected by realizing that ‘Humans fought wars, Humans are fighting wars and Humans will fight war’. But what needs to be understood is, as Jimi Hendrix said ‘When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace’.
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