POL208Y5 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - International Law, Cold War, Anarchy
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14,500 armed con icts- the deadliest with millions of dead if you count direct and collateral causalities: the total reaches 3,5000. 000,000 dead. Since the congress of vienna: between 224 and 559 interstate wars. Ww2 the deadliest war in human history with 70 million dead. Since 1992 war frequency down by 50% battle deaths by 80% De nition: organized and deliberate political act by an established political authority requiring mutually capable adversaries (especially sovereign states) who must cause over 1,000 deaths/year. The earliest representation of a rearm and re bombs. The hundred years war: rst account of canon use. The ottoman turks siege of constantinople and the rsts of a canon in siege. The swedish army was the rst to use canons on a large scale: thirty years war. The prussian-austrian and france- prussian wars- witnessed the e ective integrations of new technologies with tactics: the industrial revolution: machine guns, combustion engines, planes, ships.