05-12-2020, 07:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-12-2020, 08:26 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
Do you have a list of recent crisis wars, say in the post World War II time frame? What, exactly, defines a crisis war?
Say, for example, was Bush 43’s Iraq conflict an existential war for Iraq but not for the United States? As it turned out the Baath party’s control ceased to exist, but the United States didn’t, was not really in play. Still, the alliance of the Republican Party, big oil and the aggressive believers in US military dominance took a big hit. Can changes in perception or influence of the dominant party count as existential? Can you count what happened to the Baath and Republican parties as different?
Even World War II did not end the existence of Germany, Italy and Japan. They are all three still on the map. However, their cultures endured a significant forced change. They had to accept the Enlightenment virtues as expanded. (Human rights, equality, democracy.) So did the slaveowners after the US Civil War. All the formerly Confederate states still exist. I have a feeling that the possibility of rebooting a culture and then letting the resulting state go does not effect World War II's and the US Civil War status as crisis wars.
Just looking at Wiki’s list of recent wars and seeing how many would count as crisis wars. How do you define a crisis war?
Anyone else have an opinion?
Say, for example, was Bush 43’s Iraq conflict an existential war for Iraq but not for the United States? As it turned out the Baath party’s control ceased to exist, but the United States didn’t, was not really in play. Still, the alliance of the Republican Party, big oil and the aggressive believers in US military dominance took a big hit. Can changes in perception or influence of the dominant party count as existential? Can you count what happened to the Baath and Republican parties as different?
Even World War II did not end the existence of Germany, Italy and Japan. They are all three still on the map. However, their cultures endured a significant forced change. They had to accept the Enlightenment virtues as expanded. (Human rights, equality, democracy.) So did the slaveowners after the US Civil War. All the formerly Confederate states still exist. I have a feeling that the possibility of rebooting a culture and then letting the resulting state go does not effect World War II's and the US Civil War status as crisis wars.
Just looking at Wiki’s list of recent wars and seeing how many would count as crisis wars. How do you define a crisis war?
Anyone else have an opinion?
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