Bullcrap..... Political wars rage as we speak. You trying to limit the definition of war is an attempt to try and suggest that wars are only fought with guns, tanks or whatever else one decides to use to win out over a supposed enemy. Words can be just as lethal as weapons, and the tongue is as sharp as a knife. Go read the Bible, as it will teach you these things.Wars don't always include bullets, tanks, money, resources, and accommodations in which accompany a mechanized war, but what wars do have in common is either long term strategies or short term strategies in which come in many various forms.North had unlimited and unrestricted logistics including being able to replace and improve its rail systemYou got part of it right.
The north was able to resupply through rail,something the south didnt have.
So tell me....has that changed?
In the end money won out
The Confederacy was also anything but all in on a war that was contrived by the rich planter class that the common farmer despised. Desertion and draft dodging were rampant. Pockets of active resistance sprang up in Texas, in Arkansas, in Mississippi, in Alabama, in Georgia. Northwestern Virginia seceded and East Tennessee would have but for the presence of Confederate troops. Bushwhackers who wanted no part of war took sniper positions to cut down any army from either side that incurred on their town..
So in effect, many similarities with this ridiculous comic book fantasy where some fringe element imagines "wars" over fucking political party tribalism. Nobody but the fringe believes in that shit.
Some wars are fought without ever firing a shot, and these wars can be small as is between two people or worse all the way up to various groups jockying for power, resources, money, and land in an eventual take over bid if possible.
Some wars last year's without people realizing this until the finality of such wars begin to enter their final stages or fazes.
Wars for territory (territorial wars), as is with gangs etc, are a constant in this country now.
An example of this is right in front of people's faces daily, yet they feel powerless to stop any of it due to the entrenched corruption found in it all.
The attacks on cops is yet another war that has been on going, and the sad thing for them is that they have the enemy working strategies above and below them. The judges and the sentencing has been reduced to a toothless lion that leaves the cops as sitting ducks in the aftermaths of them trying to do their jobs out on the streets.
I saw something today that astonished me, and I couldn't believe my eyes when viewing it. In the eighties there is an area of a town that I worked in way back in the day, and It was a thriving middle class bustling metropolis of residential mixed in with business that served the residence of the area well. Very profitable area for residences and businesses alike.
It had all the big named stores, recreational facilities, gun shooting ranges, strip malls, storage units, realestate offices, bowling allies, modern gas stations etc.
Well no more. It was amazing what I had seen today. There was a huge new grocery store not long built (shut down), gas stations (shut down), bowling allies (shut down), recreational facilities (shut down), strip malls (empty or shut down), motels, hotels (shut down), and on and on it went. There was no reason for the area to be in disarray like that.
We saw the sidewalks full of people, but these weren't people out for a stroll, excersizing etc. Most were sadly what appeared to be pimps and their ladies, then their were the pants on the ground types/gang types crowd walking, and there was one poor feller standing in a store parking lot stoned out of his mind it appeared. The cops just drove right past him as if he wasn't even there.
I can only imagine how bad Chicago is when see this sort of stuff....It is being witnessed here now, but I guess it's only on a smaller scale (only various areas affected), other than what it is over in Chicago or places way bigger.
Anyway, I just wanted to share in my thoughts on the matter, and to see if others are seeing in this sort of stuff also in their towns or cities etc ??
When areas fall like this, is it part of a strategy by groups or just shifting demographics caused by poverty or what ever ??? What makes an area vulnerable to these things, and then the fall comes afterwards ? I did notice that right off of the main road there were apt. complexes upon apt. complexes upon apt. complexes.
Are birth rates out of control amongst groups in which in turn causes long term poverty over long periods of time for the children who are born into it ?? The so called war on poverty, is it working or is the strategy a failed one ???
How will businesses and people keep shifting and losing their investments in order to keep a distance between people drowning in poverty as so it doesn't negatively affect their communities and business sectors like this ???
How long can people keep running, and losing ground because of poverty sprawl ??? What are the solutions ????
Would a mandatory two to four year military service be a good thing in which to help these troubled young folks beat the poverty machine ??? That could be a great beginning to solving this thing, and it could make men and women (before they get caught up in the poverty trap totally), to become better people, and more responsible citizens if on the wrong track in life.
The military needs recruits anyway, and it would be good way to prepare the troubled youth by having them spend at least two years in the service of their choice, but it would be mandatory if they quit school or rather one is engaging in bad grades, bad character or even light criminal activity.
The service would have to change back into making honorable men and women out of these youth or young folks. The gloves come off if needed so to speak, but in a very disiplined manor.
A helluva lotta words just to play loosely with the definition of "war" trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
What you're describing above is conflicts, disagreements, tensions and reactions. It is not "war".
What's proposed in this pimply-faced adolescent fantasy of the OP is an actual war, in its real meaning. Mindless as that fantasy is, if such an event were actually plausible, the point of the actual Civil War comparison above is that just because you throw a war doesn't mean everybody shows up for it. The overwhelming majority of the populace simply don't think in these perverted ways. In the real world the average Joe is far more concerned about whether his neighbor's dog is digging up his yard, than what his freaking political ideology is.
Again, the contingent that actually would show up are a tiny lunatic fringe. And that element is what we have the FBI for. What's being contemplated here is simply a dressed-up version of a mass shooting event. Same kind of pseudopolitical bullshit that leads to stuff like 9/11.
The Holey Babble certainly likes its wars, and stonings and rapes and pillaging and dashing babies' heads against rocks. But that too is a comic book. It's just not related or applicable to the real world.
The point remains, what this pimplyfaced war-fetish adolescent is doing is trying to suggest that terrorism is OK, that this perverted armed conflict in his tiny little head is inevitable so arm up. And that's what leads to shit like mass shootings and flying planes into buildings. Whether that terrorism derives from an imaginary pixie in the sky, or from an imaginary Dichotomy Disease fashioned after political parties, is a distinction without a difference.