civil wars
Nations fighting themselves
Civil wars are armed conflicts between organized groups within the same country, typically involving a government and rebel forces, or factions competing for control of the state.
The term distinguishes internal warfare from conflicts between nations.
Civil wars often arise from political, ethnic, religious, or economic divisions: The civil war devastated the country for a decade.
They tend toward particular brutality since combatants share a homeland.
- fratricideKilling one's own brother
- brother against brotherRelatives warring against each other
- rebellionsOrganized resistance to authority
- revolutionsTurnovers of power
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
insurgency · rebel forces · conflict · Balkanization · failed states · power vacuum · refugee flows · Yugoslav Wars · ethnic tensions · internecine · factionalism · divided nation · insurrection · warlords · hostilities · foreign intervention · sectarian · guerrilla warfare
- WarsWWI, Yugoslav Wars, Napoleonic Wars, Punic Wars, Opium Wars
- Ancient WarsPunic Wars, Persian Wars, Gallic Wars
- Roman warfarelegion, cohort, centurion, Caesar, testudo
- Roman CrisisValerian, usurpers, currency debasement, political instability, imperial succession
- Yoruba HistoryOyo Empire, Lagos, city-states, British colonization, British rule
- historypast events, historian, epochs, era, epoch
civil warsworld wars
Multinational military conflicts
colonial wars · wars of aggression · wars of conquest · invasions · external conflicts
civil warspeace
Freedom from disturbance
peacetime · harmony · tranquility · stability · armistice
civil warsnational unity
Shared identity across citizenry
domestic harmony · social cohesion · national reconciliation · unification · solidarity
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