The war of aggression, conquest, oppression and plunder is an unjust war. It can also be divided into traditional wars and modern wars; Local wars and world wars and other types of wars.
1, just war
War is an armed struggle between human social groups for certain political and economic purposes. In the history of countries, wars with the nature of self-defense or national liberation are usually regarded as just wars, while wars of aggression or hegemony are regarded as unjust wars.
From China's standpoint, China people generally agree that the Great Patriotic War, the North American War of Independence, the Latin American War of Independence, the Pacific War, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression are just wars.
2. War of aggression
A war of aggression refers to a military conflict without self-defense. This is an unjust war. A country provokes other countries with armed forces, enslaves them politically, plunders and occupies them economically, which is beneficial to its own development. According to customary international law, waging a war of aggression is a crime.
3. Traditional war
A war between opposing sides due to ideology, territorial disputes, ethnic contradictions, religious disputes and other traditional incentives. Compared with wars induced by non-traditional reasons such as terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, drug smuggling and environmental degradation.
A war waged by traditional means and methods. Compared with the war launched by modern means and methods.
4. Modern warfare
With regard to the meaning of modern war, it is generally believed that it is a modern conventional war with high-tech modern combat tools or weapons under the threat of modern high-tech weapons such as nuclear weapons.
According to this view, the wave of the world's new technological revolution rushed into the field of war, which made a qualitative leap in the level of war. 1982 Malvinas war between Britain and Argentina, 1983 invasion of grenada, USA.
1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and attacked the missile base deployed by the Syrian army in the Bekaa Valley. 1986, the American army attacked Libya. Until 1999 NATO's war against Yugoslavia, we can already see the embryonic form of modern war with high-tech weapons as the mainstay.
5, unjust war
The so-called unjust war refers to all counter-revolutionary and retrogressive wars that infringe on people's interests and hinder social development. In a word, all wars in which reactionary forces suppress revolution, invade and expand abroad and hinder social progress are unjust wars.
Unjust wars include: hegemonic wars, counter-revolutionary wars, colonial wars, imperialist wars, wars of aggression and so on.
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