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This category overlaps with Law-Government-Commerce and Morality. This category started out as a Political Instrument of Power. It had 35 entries more than the 20 criterion to merge with another category.War contains links to sources that advocate violence as a way to solve problems, including nations and individuals.  We Are Right I can't take credit for this great acronym. I thank the writers of Jim Henson Productions for introducing the acronym in the wonderful television series, "Dinosaurs: Episode Nuts to War: Part 1", aired February 19, 1992. It was a great television series. Robby the Hypsilophodon teenage son of Earl the Megalosaurus father and Fran his Allosaurus wife coined the acronym after hearing the Dinosaur President say the phrase, "We are Right", as did G.W. Bush during the Gulf War. The episode aired about 1 year after the Gulf War ended, the same day Bush authorized American troops in Somalia. We as a nation love war. We were founded in war: the King Phillips (2,500, nearly one-third of Eurpeans), French and Indian (1,512 combat deaths) and Revolutionary Wars (8,000 combat deaths) and have been fighting wars ever since. A list of the main wars follows: | ||||
| War | Dates | Combat Deaths | Enemy Deaths | Kill Ratio (%) |
| Northwest Indian War | (1785-1796) | 1,050 | no data6 | |
| Barbary War | (1801-1805) | 35 | " " | |
| War of 1812 | (1812-1815) | 2,260 | " " | |
| Mexican-American War | (1846-1848) | 1,733 | " " | |
| Civil War | (1861-1865) | 215,000 | " " | |
| Indian Wars | (1862-1891) | 1,767 | " " | |
| Spanish-American War | (1898-1898) | 385 | " " | |
| Phillipine-American War | (1899-1902) | 1,020 | " " | |
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| World War I | (1915-1918) | 5,711,6961 | 4,010,241 | 0.70 |
| World War II | (1941-1945) | 9,497,7002 | 4,202,700 | 0.44 |
| Korean War | (1950-1953) | 282,0463 | 750,000 | 2.63 |
| Vietnam War | (1965-1974) | 282,0004 | 444,000 | 1.57 |
| War of Terrorism (Iraq) | (2001-present) | 4,5005 | 36,500 | 08.11 |
| War of Terrorism (Afghanistan) | (2001-present) | 2,4015 | 42,100 | 17.53 |
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1Axis and Allied total combat deaths from PDF 2German, Soviet, UK, and US armies combat deaths Wikipedia 3North Korea and China vrs South Korean and US combat deaths History Guy 4VAPN, Viet Cong, S Vietnam, and US combat deaths Wikipedia 5Iraq and Afghan US vrs enemy combat deaths Wikipedia 6Before WW I no estimates of enemy combat deaths Wikipedia | ||||
| And between the main wars many skirmishes, e.g. Somalia, (Black Hawk Down Movie. We are now fighting a "never ending" war against criminals, which we call terrorists for now, perhaps later we'll call them racists. I guess we'll be at war until all people behave themselves, | ||||
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