Research - War

War, is one of the 4 themes that I will persent on Friday. It definitely is a wide-range topic for doing research. First, I have done a mindmap on topic "War", expanded ideas from 5 directions. It includes gains and adverse impact form wars, politics in wars, civilians in wars and armaments may use or developing in wars.
Also, there are pictures/photographs/concept arts below are really helpful to understand "War". A few shot videos are useful to explore and understand what circumstance of people during wars; how powerful and the perniciousness of nuclear weapons, how could the WW1 changed the world and history , and weapons used in ancient Chinese wars.

The mind map includes some ideas on gains (profit) from wars and 'adverse impact'. Also 'Politics' are important to understand how politicians controlled states and circumstance of people during wars. 'Armaments' to focus on different types of weapons in militaries from ancient period to modern world.


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War is a state of armed conflict between states, governments, societies and informal paramilitary groups, such as mercenaries, insurgents and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces.

​Gains and loss in wars

Who pays for a war? Who get profits form a war? One thing I clearly understand, war takes a lot for civilians and violates the will of people,  throughout ages. Death is definately a fear of human. However a war would cause soldiers and civilians to lose their lifes, even affects their families and friends. This is the main reason of population decline. The country would be in a circumstance of manpower shortage and talents in various industries.
Moreover, Family dissension and reputation loss might be caused by wars. Also, soldiers and cilvilans may lose their properties and health, in other words, homeless and disability that nobody wants to happend on itself.
War also causes financial loss and nation status loss. National financial loss usually called treasury loss, then foreign debts increase, currency devaluation, tax growth, etc. Even International aids are important for some countries. Nation status loss would decrease the voice and influence in International organisations.
Wars are evil and hateful, but wars definitely make profits to ​aggressors and their allies. Profits usually are the reasons to start a war. For example, ​expanding lands, increase population from conquered regions, non-renewable resource.
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​Armaments (Weapons)

There are thousand kinds of weapons in the world. Nowadays, chemistry; science and high technologies help militaries to rise their strength and influence. Looking the past, soldiers used cold weapons, such as sword or hammer, in armies. Wherever in Eastern or Western ancient world, soldiers armed in similar ways. The biggest difference is the design of armour and weapons.
From the 20th century, militaries are gradually abandoned 'cold weapons', transferred to modern armaments. When the first tank "Mark I" appeared on the battlefield in 1916, "Tank" was destined written into history and to be developed in the future. Also, airplane is a huge invention ​on early twentieth Century. It undoubtedly realised the dream of human to fly in the sky by self manipulate device. ​Missiles are able to directly hit targets on thousand miles away, it is unimaginable in the past.
Nuclear weapons are dangerous. Since the nuclear bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan, the world pattern has been changed. The World War two ended in the same year. Nowadays, nuclear weapons are valued by scientists and as a backup means to protect countries.

​References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-renewable_resource
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon
​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab–Israeli_War_(disambiguation)
https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/The-Main-Reasons-For-War
https://bohatala.com/how-companies-profit-from-war/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_Kingdom
https://www.britannica.com/technology/nuclear-weapon
https://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321030.php
https://www.britannica.com/event/Arab-Israeli-wars
​https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/persian-gulf-war