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War (Contest between nations)

a contest between nations and States (international war), or between parties in the same state (civil war), carried on by force of arms, and resorted to either for purposes of advan- WAR stance, from disputes concerning terri- now wars usually arise, in the first inwaged at the will of despotic monarchs; now wars usually arise, in the first instance, from disputes concerning territorial possessions and frontiers, unjust dealings with the citizens of one state by another, questions of race and sentifrom the claims of rival competitors for the establishment of some important for the supreme power in a state, or from the claims of rival competitors for the supreme power in a state, or for the establishment of some important point connected with civil or religious liberty. In all cases, the object of each contending party is to destroy the power of the other by defeating or dispersing a ANTLERS OF WAPITI his army or navy, by the occupation of some important part of his country, such as the capital, or the principal administrative and commercial centers, such as the capital, or the principal or the ruin of his commerce, thus cutor the ruin of his commerce, thus cutmen, money, and material. An internamen, money, and material. An internaorized by the sovereign power of the nations, and previous to the commencement of hostilities it is now usual for the state taking the initiative to issue declaration of war, which usually a declaration of war, which usually the state taking the initiative to issue festo addressed to the neutral states.

An aggressive or offensive war is one carried into the territory of a hitherto friendly power; and a defensive war to friendly power; and a defensive war sion. Certain laws, usages, or rig war are recognized by international law.

By such laws it is allowable to seize and destroy the persons or property of armed enemies, to stop up all their channels of traffic or supply, and to appropriate everything in an enemy's country necessary for the support or Сус rights of ber, 1497), and confined to the Tower, WARBECK the other hand, though an enemy may subsistence of the invading army. On the other hand, though an enemy may lawfully be starved into a surrender, and all cruel and wanton devastation, are contrary to the usages of war, as town, firing on a hospital, the use of information from an enemy. are also the bombarding of a defenseless information from an enemy. of a vanpersons captured from the enemy during military or naval operations. In