The scholarly study of war is sometimes called polemology. The multi-disciplinary program explores the military, diplomatic, philosophical, social, political, psychological or economic dimensions of human conflict. In the context of modern warfare, it considers issues of defence policy, strategic planning, logistics and operations.
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties.
While some scholars see war as a universal and ancestral aspect of human nature, others argue it is a result of specific socio-cultural, economic or ecological circumstances.
Conflicts
- American Civil War
- Battle of Magdala
- Philippine-American War
- Spanish-American War
- War of the Pacific
Blogs
- De Nederlandsche Veldpost (Dutch Military Postmarks)
- Postal War
Podcast
Websites
- Allied Military Government Collector’s Club
- Anglo-Boer War Philatelic Society
- British Forces Philatelic Service
- Civil Censorship Study Group
- Military Postal History Society
YouTube
- American Philatelic Society: Christmas Postcards from Japanese POW camps (1914-1919)
- American Philatelic Society: Mental Health and Prisoners of War
- British Empire Study Group: British Egyptian Expeditionary Forces in WWI
- British Empire Study Group: Propaganda Stamps and Espionage Currency
- Circolo Filatelico Bergamasco: Italian P.O.W. in India in the Second World War
- Exploring Stamps: Season 3/Ep.16 – Operation Cornflakes
- Exploring Stamps: Season 1/Ep.2 – Occupied Countries WWII
- Falkland Islands Philatelic Study Group: Falklands War 1982
- France & Colonies Philatelic Society: Life and Times of the 1F 50 Pétain
- Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center: The Netherlands at War
- Mi Oficina Philatelic Society: La Correspondencia Militar de los Estados Unidos en la Guerra contra España en 1898
- Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada: McCarthy and His Majesty’s Canadian Ship
- Royal Philatelic Society London: Occupied France in World War 2
- Royal Philatelic Society London: Spitfire
- Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria: The Italian Occupied Balkans During World War II
- Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria: World Wars
- Sarawak Specialists Society: Australian WW2 Comforts Envelopes
- Sociedade Philatelica Paulista: Divisão Naval em Operações de Guerra e Filatelia: O Brasil na 1ª GM – Rubem Porto
- Sociedade Philatelica Paulista: German Prison Camps in Japan
- StampCat Stamps: Battle of Electricity (Keratsini Power Station)
- Stamp Chats: The US Post Office During World War 2
- Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada: US Forces at Churchill