1. Is War a Rational Idea?

2. War
Some facts
“Since 1495, no 25-year period has been without war”(War).
“There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea” (War).
“Global spending on defence total more than $700 billion. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion ”(War).

3. Is War Needed?
If Hitler would not have been stopped in WWII Unheard of amounts of people would have been slaughtered.
The United States split across the middle not brought back together by the Civil War things would be a lot different now.

4. Good Reasons to go to War
The threat of world wide security
To protect millions of innocent lives who can’t protect themselves

5. Bad Reasons to go to War To gain land To Exterminate a type of race
To try to control the globe

6. Positive Effects of War
Produces new technologies that improve standard of living such as-
Nuclear energy would not have been discovered if not for the Manhattan project which was started to help bring WWII to a close
Sonar would have not have been developed had submarines not need to be aware of its surroundings, this has helped us map the ocean floor
WWII helped lift the United states out of depression

7. Negative Effects of War
Environment ravaged
Many soldiers are usually either killed, wounded, sickened, or left with post traumatic stress disorder
Many innocent people die for doing absolutely nothing
Destroy important cultural icons and buildings
Forces losing countries to rebuild, give up land, possessions, or money
Can cause social splits within a country

8. U.S Involvement in Wars
The United States has only declared war officially five times, it has used military force many more times than just these five instances
The war of 1812
The Mexican-American war
The Spanish-American war
World War I
World War II

9. War on Terror
The War on Terror can not be officially declared a war since there is no country to declare it on.
The cost of the War on Terror since 2001 is currently $853,584,526,436 and counting
In Iowa alone the cost of war is $6,462,932,540 and rising

10. Rational Idea?
Although war can be used to help people it still kills some of the people it is trying to assist. Bombs do not only blow up terrorist buildings or terrorists they also destroy the land and the innocent people.
Rational not really, necessary in some
cases yes
It can be used as a last ditch
effort if a diplomatic solution
can not be reached

11. Citing
For the cost of the current war go to costofwar.com for a running counter