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War is a state of armed conflict between states , governments , societies and informal 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 .
The scholarly study of war is sometimes called polemology ( POL -ə-MOL -ə-jee ), from the Greek polemos , meaning "war", and -logy , meaning "the study of".
While some scholars see war as a universal and ancestral aspect of human nature , others argue it is a result of specific socio-cultural or ecological circumstances.
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Robert Baden-Powell was a lieutenant-general in the British Army , writer, and founder of the Scout Movement . After having been educated at Charterhouse School , Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa , Baden-Powell successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking . Several of his military books, written for military reconnaissance and scout training in his African years, were also read by boys. Based on those earlier books, he wrote Scouting for Boys , published in 1908 by Pearson , for youth readership. During writing, he tested his ideas through a camping trip on Brownsea Island that began on August 1, 1907, which is now seen as the beginning of Scouting. After his marriage with Olave St Clair Soames , Baden-Powell, his sister Agnes Baden-Powell and notably his wife actively gave guidance to the Scouting Movement and the Girl Guides Movement . Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri , Kenya , where he died in 1941.
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