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Originally Posted by Aramike
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Originally Posted by Oberon
Good point guys, I wonder why the Great War was designated as the first world war, and also agreed on the war on terror being a rather inept name for it. However, the 'war on terror' has possibly claimed more lives in a shorter space of time than the 'war on illiteracy' although perhaps not the 'war on drugs'.
Coming to think of it, the United Nations Security Council and UN peacekeeper forces being involved in a conflict would perhaps make it a world war because of the multinational element of it.
Unless the true definition of a world war is not multiple countries being involved in the fighting, but the fighting being involved in multiple countries. :hmm: And in which case, would it be shearly the number of countries the fighting is involved in, or the multi-continental nature of the war? :hmm: In which case, the First world war would surely not particularly count as a world war because aside from the wars in the Ottoman Empire and the Georgian area, I believe, all of the fighting took place in Central Europe. :hmm:
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In which case the First World War is in fact, more like the Fourth World War, as before that you have:
The War of Spanish Succession
The Seven Years War (described by Churchill as the First World War)
The French Revolutionary Wars
As well as perhaps the War of Independence.
12-20-08, 01:38 PM
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