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War is Peace

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  “The nineteenth-century reactionary opponent of the Enlightenment, Joseph de Maistre, criticized Thomas Hobbes for adopting the Roman phrase, "Man is a wolf to man," observing that it is unfair to wolves, who do not kill for pleasure.”               The history of humankind is full of violent events that popularly came to be known as War. An event of conflict between two groups or a number of groups based essentially on divergent ideologies or viewpoints is what everyone has generally managed to understand as War. But hardly anyone has ever ventured to ask why wars are fought and why there is a constant necessity of war in this godforsaken world in the first place. Since, may be, the first conflict of history, war has significantly changed its nature, ways of fighting, motives and almost its each & every other aspect. Some mind boggling questions are bound to arise when one sets off to the adventure of comp...