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the oldest human pastime nobody wins but everybody pays for
means An organized, armed conflict between nations, states, or groups, usually large-scale and sustained.
from From Old English 'werre,' borrowed via Old North French 'werre' (Modern French 'guerre'), from a Germanic root meaning 'confusion, strife, mess' — possibly related to the source of 'worse.' Tellingly, the Romance languages dropped their inherited Latin word 'bellum' and reached for this Frankish term instead, perhaps because 'bellum' had drifted too close to 'bellus' meaning 'beautiful' — so even the word's history avoids confusing war with anything lovely.
- Shortest ever
- Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted under 45 minutes
- Deadliest
- WWII killed over 70 million people
- Long game
- England fought France for 116 years
- Disease toll
- Sickness killed more soldiers than bullets for centuries
- Trojan trick
- A wooden horse ended a decade-long siege
world war ii — 1939-1945, 70-85 million deaths across europe, asia, pacific
world war i — 1914-1918, 15-20 million deaths, trench warfare in france
second sino-japanese war — 1937-1945, 15-20 million chinese deaths, often overlooked precursor to wwii
american civil war — 1861-1865, 620,000 deaths, deadliest conflict in us history