First, about the war
Throughout the ages, people are often most impressed by the conquerors of the world;
Many great men are immortal because of war;
Most of the glorious history reached its peak or turned into ruins in the war;
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Different people have their own explanations for the war.
/kloc-Hobbes, a British philosopher in the 7th century, believed that war was a natural state of human society. Just like a human disease, it happens occasionally to get rid of chronic diseases and coordinate the body.
Barton, the man of the World War II, firmly believes that war is the most spectacular competition that human beings can participate in. It will create heroes and clean up all the muddy waters.
Even a scientist once said, "I don't know what weapons were used to fight World War III, but I know that the fourth time, it must be with stones and sticks."
In the eyes of many people, war is a disaster, a terrible thing and the root of all evil. It kills innocent people, plunders other people's property, destroys prosperous cities and erases the vicissitudes and accumulated civilizations on the earth.
However, what is war? Why is there a war? What is the essence of war? For these problems, the above three figures failed to give accurate and reasonable explanations either for personal reasons or for objective conditions.
Until karl von Clausewitz shouted:
"The war of the whole nation, especially the war of civilized nations, always happens in a certain political situation and can only be caused by certain political motives. Politics runs through the whole war action and constantly affects the war within the scope allowed by various forces that play a role in the war. "
"War is not only a political act, but also a real political tool, a continuation of political communication, which is achieved by another means. If there is anything special about war, it is only because of its special means. "
In his works, he put forward the famous saying that "war is just a continuation of another means of politics", which revealed the essence of war and restored its true colors.
Looking back at history, it is not difficult to find that the closer to modern times, the more war is like what clausewitz said. From the beginning, ancient humans fought for the interests of individuals and tribes, and gradually developed to fight for a country and a * * *, and even swept the world, forming a world-class war.
The outbreak of World War I was only caused by the unbalanced political and economic development of the two major military blocs. One side is a newly rising power, trying to seize hegemony. The other side is the old overlord, trying to maintain its original position. Moreover, because international peace talks and other means were not popular at that time, political problems that could have been solved through peace talks eventually broke out with the gunshots of Serbian youth. It caused100000 deaths and losses of more than 340 billion dollars.
The Second World War was a continuation of the First World War to some extent. The First World War caused another 50 million deaths and lost 1. 1 trillion dollars.
The subsequent four Middle East wars, Gulf War, Iraq War, etc. It is a political means for big countries to control and direct small countries to attack small countries or even send troops directly out of political and economic interests.
This shows that war is indeed a continuation of political means. However, in the process of war implementation, the means of war are expanding and enriching day by day, and gradually show the characteristics of super-information, high technology, concealment and localization. According to some data, the United States is taking practical actions to implement its plan to dominate space in a planned way. Russia is also stepping up the development of its own space equipment, claiming that it will prepare for the space war in 2008.
Although war sometimes objectively stimulates the progress of science and the expansion of production, the disaster it brings to mankind is obvious. People's fear and hatred of war have never changed. It is people's aspiration to stop the war and maintain peace.
Two. The hard road to peace
Whenever a war begins, there will always be a force to stop it until it retreats, and that is peace.
In the modern world, the maintenance of peace mainly depends on the laws and regulations reached by the international community and the United Nations Security Council, an international organization composed of most countries to maintain world peace.
The modern convention of war began with The Hague Convention. The Hague Convention, namely "The Hague Charter", is the general name of 13 Convention and some declaration documents adopted by 1899 and 1907 two Hague Peace Conferences. Mainly to limit the means or methods of combat.
1928 The full name of the Geneva Protocol, which came into force, is the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, which legally prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons.
1929 The non-war convention that came into force is the most important legal basis in international law, especially in determining the illegality of the war of aggression.
Especially 1979, the signing of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel ended the state of war between Egypt and Israel for more than 30 years and promoted the development of world peace.
From 65438 to 0996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which pushed international disarmament and arms control to a climax.
In 2000, the meeting between the leaders of the ROK and the DPRK further promoted the relaxation process on the Korean Peninsula.
This series of practices and actions seems to indicate that the general trend of the world is to ease. However, the danger of war still exists, and small-scale wars also occur from time to time. The world presents a situation where relaxation and tension coexist, and peace and war coexist. Why is this happening?
On the one hand, individual superpowers pursue hegemonic policies and intervene in other countries' affairs and regional disputes. However, in some countries and regions, with the old pattern being broken, various contradictions between regions have emerged, and war is inevitable.
On the other hand, because war is a continuation of politics, and politics is influenced by independent and uncertain factors, it is impossible to eliminate war from its roots.
On the other hand, war and peace are unified. Go to war in peace and peace in war. On the Christmas Eve of 19 17, all the British and German troops who fought for nearly 10 hours laid down their weapons and happily held a "bonfire party", although they will still take up arms and kill each other tomorrow.
Yu Yan
Since war cannot be avoided from the root, what we have to do, and the only thing we can do, is: at home, strive to develop the economy and improve the overall national strength; Expand the forces of peace internationally to minimize the outbreak of war. Strengthen international cooperation and exchanges, and actively eliminate the awareness gap. No matter what kind of national system, we should unite as brothers and sisters. Peace * * *, * * and development.
As john donne said: "No one is an island, but a self-contained; Everyone is a part of this vast continent. If the waves washed away a clod and a cloak, the world would be less. If your friend or your own manor is washed away, the same is true. Anyone's death makes me lose, because I was conceived in human beings. So ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you. "
Because we cherish peace, we look back on war.
It is precisely because we look back on that damn war that we should cherish this hard-won peace.
Peace, not war.
War is always cruel. No matter how perfect the war is, it also has its fatal flaw-people will always leave because of it.
Look at the tragic scenes of China and Nanking Massacre in modern times. I believe that as China people, we can still remember them clearly.
1In the winter of 973, the Japanese invaders deliberately created the Nanjing Massacre that shocked China and foreign countries. More than 300,000 people were killed and tens of thousands of women were raped. The atrocities of the Japanese army were even more cruel than the Nazi massacre of Jews in World War II. Despite the conclusive evidence, in recent years, there have been attempts to deny the Nanjing Massacre in Japan.
All this is the result of war, which is tragic and infuriating.
When we think of the Nanjing Massacre, should we also think of the massacre of Jews by German Nazis? When Jews were buried alive by the Nazis, pain accompanied them. What did the war bring? Brought more helplessness and more pain.
During World War II, Poles massacred Jews at least 30 times in 24 locations, killing thousands of Jews. Before World War II, there were 3.5 million Jews in Poland, about 3 million of whom died in the Nazi Holocaust. At present, there are only about 20 thousand Jews in Poland. Many Poles have always regarded themselves as victims of the Nazis, and it is difficult to accept that their compatriots slaughtered Jews.
When the nightmares caused by these wars have slowly begun to fade away with time, new nightmares suddenly broke out again.
The war between the United States and Iraq has brought more helplessness, and the abuse of prisoners of war by American soldiers is even more chilling.
According to reports, there are at least 20 ways for the US military to mistreat prisoners of war, and the inhumanity and severity of their actions are outrageous. In the words of an internal investigation report of the US Army, these are some "cruel, shameless and indecent acts of prisoner abuse". Moreover, US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, who is in charge of this incident, also revealed that the prisoner abuse incident that has been exposed now is only a part, and there are more photos and videos, which may make this scandal more serious. It is reported that there are obvious crimes such as murder and rape here.
Many wars have brought many nightmares, but what we want is peace, just peace, only peace.
When we live in modern times, we should cherish and maintain peace.