1. It is the only period of time that large groups of people, or one-half of the world (ex. Axis vs. Allies.) are working together for a common result: destroying or rendering a different large group, or the other half of the world useless.
2. The result of which spurs economic growth and new jobs, better living conditions, increased education, and studies if human nature.
3. Periods that define most countries independence, great moments in history, generations, (lost generation and the greatest generation).
4. A time during which civilians sacrifice luxuries to promote the well-being of their nation and their military.
5. It is what propels the creation of almost all technology.
War is when tactics, logistics and strategy is employed by the everyone in the world for a commom purpose.
War. War never changes.
In the year 1945, my great-great grandfather, serving in the army, wondered when heβd get to go home to his wife and the son heβd never seen. He got his wish when the US ended World War II by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The World awaited Armageddon; instead, something miraculous happened. We began to use atomic energy not as a weapon, but as a nearly limitless source of power.
People enjoyed luxuries once thought the realm of science fiction. Domestic robots, fusion-powered cars, portable computers. But then, in the 21st century, people awoke from the American dream.
Years of consumption lead to shortages of every major resource. The entire world unraveled. Peace became a distant memory. It is now the year 2077. We stand on the brink of total war, and I am afraid. For myself, for my wife, for my infant son β because if my time in the army taught me one thing: itβs that war, war never changes