FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS Dersi Foreign Policy Instruments of States: War and Conflict soru detayı:

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What is an absolute War?


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Absolute war is a type of warfare which is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, the objectives pursued and resources that are allocated. In an absolute war the whole society is seen as combatant and the land of the country is seen as a battlefield as a whole. In other words, the differentiation between combatants and non-combatants become indistinct and sometimes it even vanishes entirely because nearly every human resource can be considered to be a part of the war in absolute wars. The aim in general is to conquer and occupy the adversary. Absolute war began with the Napoleonic Wars, which introduced large-scale conscription and geared the entire French national economy toward the war effort. The practice of absolute war evolved with industrialization, and this incident integrated the whole society and economy into the practice of war. The best and last example of absolute war was the Second World War.