The Guerrilla War

             The term “guerrilla” began to be used in Spain after the invasion of Napoleon Bonaparte. This conflict is between an army composed of soldiers of the profession and civilians. Therefore, it is an unequal war. This causes the attacks to be by means of tactics. The purpose of running for tactics is the harassment and attrition of the enemy.

            In the "maquis" are taken as techniques: attacks fast and surprise, as before mentioned; infiltration and intercept communications, blasting facilities, bridges and roads, capturing weapons and provisions. All this have done so for several purposes throughout history. For example, for the year 1960 the purpose was national liberation. For this reason, United States Department of Defense and other treaties considered this conflict as low intensity movements, by the lack of territory to control and govern. This conflict has to happen in an area of difficult access. We also can say that the guerrilla movement is a movement that goes through three phases, the first is the mobilization of the peasantry and the establishment of the Organization, the second consists in the establishment of bases rural and increased coordination between the guerrillas and the third is the transition to a conventional war.

             I think the "guerrilla" as a mechanism for much boldness and agility. Perhaps a little weaker than other wars, but with the same purpose to conquer or to bring about a transformation. This war, as the others, claims lives. Therefore, I do not consider it better or worse. But nothing, down attached them the link to a video on the guerrillas in Colombia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBDY7ynRy2k

The civil war

           In general, the civil war is the conflict that is given by the encounter between two different ideologies. This confrontation occurs in the same territory, whether village, town or community. You can intervene the foreign forces, turning this conflict into an international one. The particular objective of this war is the succession of a territory. The civil war can be seen as a revolution if the redistribution of the majority of a society happens.

           The Spanish civil war of the last century, lasted two years and eight months. In this Spanish conflict encountered by the parties of republicans and nationalists. The Spanish civil war had several stages, such as: class struggle, the war of religion, a clash of nationalisms opposites, the struggle between military dictatorship and democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, between fascism and communism. Elaborating a bit about the consequences of this conflict, it is worth mentioning the increase of the mortality, the birth rate decrease, the destruction of cities, the economic structure, the artistic heritage, at the end of the so-called Silver Age of letters and sciences Spanish, and the political sector was also affected.

           In general terms, we've all heard the term civil wars. This conflict is very old, as well as in the country of Ukraine are going through in these moments by this conflict. Below I attached a few photos on the example of the Spanish civil war, a conflict that still hurts into the memories of the spaniards. As I always say, until then!

The limited wars

            Another style of war, is the limited war. These conflicts are, as the name says, limit. These wars are very different from the total wars, which we talked about earlier. What's more, we can say that they are quite the opposite. In definition, limited wars are restricted in the geographical area, the weapons that can be used, the type of lens who want to attack, or the degree of mobilization.

          For 1945, the great powers (E. E. U. U. and USSR) autoimpusieron not use armamiento nuclear. Another example of these conflicts, are The Korean War (1950-1953) and The Vietnam War (1965-1975). We can do this because it's not engaged all its resources-natural, human, economic, or used by U.s. soldiers. Two other wars that will fit in this category were The Falklands War (1982), this conflict was between Argentina and the United Kingdom; and The First Gulf War (1990-1991).

         This conflict, as we have seen, is one that does not involve all the resources, but that is limited. It is for this reason that we can establish the differences between the total wars, that in the opposite way, involving all of its resources to achieve victory. Below I attached some photos of the aforementioned examples. As always, it is a pleasure to pass by here. The next time we see you, we will discuss the civil wars. 

The Total Wars

Total war, as the name implies, involves the application of all resources (human, military, industrial, agricultural, natural, technological, scientific, or any other) resources of a nation. The purpose of this war is completely defeating the enemy. The total war concept came into use since the nineteenth century, but the conflicts seen today are now known as total war and were already taking place for centuries before. Carl Von Clausewitz is known for been in the military and he is credited with the mentioned concept. Initially, Clausewitz called such conflicts "absolute war" the difference between these concepts is the domain of war on the government and the prospect of victory.

The Napoleonic wars are examples of total war. The background of these wars begin when a French army desertion just faced when monetary resources were not sufficient to sustain the war in the eighteenth century. This was what prompted France to declare total war. Thus, the French government was responsible for finding all the necessary resources, and employed. This as the trait of total war, broke with the everyday life, since the main purpose of the nation was war. This mandatory sense, became reformed with Napoleon Bonaparte, who through total war managed to acquire control of much of continental Europe.

The total wars have been around for a long time, therefore, there are many examples. Later I will detail the most important total wars of the twentieth century, as before mentioned was the bloodiest. Below I enclose you a video of a video game trailer on total wars. Graphically you can see some examples of wars, weapons, army and more which are the main basis of total war you soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBMmbHw8Ha4

The War

War is a socio-economic conflict that arises between a group of people or nations. With it the state of peace breaks and vanishes. The objective of war may vary. Controlling human or natural resources or to impose any kind of religion or ideology, or disarmament, and / or destruction of the enemy are among the objectives. In science, politics and international relations, war is a political tool for a state or organization for political purposes.

There are four common types of wars that I will be commenting on this blog; total war, limited war, guerrillas and civil war. Wars include the conflicts that have a nation with another or internal conflicts among the citizens themselves. I’m also going to analyze the twentieth century, which undoubtedly was the bloodiest by the magnitude and persistence of this wars, including a bit of history. On the other hand, the concept of civil wars I will be more open to discuss this topic, because even nowadays there are some.

Overall, the topic of war seems very interesting. For this reason I like to learn and reflect from it. As the quote from Napoleon Bonaparte said: "Whoever does not know history are doomed to repeat it". This reflective quote invites us to learn from the past to know where we want to go in a future. Let’s continue learning about war!

Introduction

Welcome! My name is Gloriely Saraí and I am from Gurabo, Puerto Rico. I’m at my second year in the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey, and in my English class, we were assigned to create a blog. I’m very excited because for this homework. I choose the topic of war. I hope you guys enjoy and that you as a guest feel comfortable with the information that I will upload in my blog named The G.