It is perhaps difficult to find another equally monstrous phenomenon in the life of human society, which is war. Armed confrontation of countries and peoples results in innumerable disasters, brings hardship, death and destruction. Can military actions be justified, who needs war and why?
War as a way of conducting politics
Regardless of the historical era, all wars have common features. The classics of Marxism, who most seriously approached the question of the nature, causes and significance of wars in the history of mankind, adhered to the definition of the Prussian military specialist Clausewitz, who pointed out that war was just a continuation of politics by violent means.
States use armed forces in war to achieve their political goals.
Any war is a social and political phenomenon that is inherent in states that are at the class stage of their development. Under the primitive communal system, there was no centralized state; therefore, armed clashes between tribes cannot be considered wars in the proper sense of the word, although there is an external similarity between these phenomena. In those distant times, clashes occurred mainly due to the contradictions that arose during the division of hunting and fishing places. The battle for resources was needed for the survival of the clan.
