resource war
Fight over materials
A resource war is armed conflict driven by competition for valuable natural resources—oil, water, minerals, arable land.
The term frames military action as fundamentally about securing access to or control over scarce materials rather than ideology or territory per se: Critics called the invasion a resource war dressed up as liberation.
The concept suggests that as resources deplete, such conflicts may intensify.
- conflictOpposition between parties
- proxy warConflict fought through intermediaries
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- zero sumGains offset by losses
- oilSlippery viscous fluid
oil field · natural gas · territory · land grab · invasion · foreign intervention · minerals · rare earth · conquest · pipeline · blockade · famine · occupation · strategic · embargo · trade war · colonialism · plunder
- WarsWorld War I, WWI, civil war, cold war, Korean War
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
- Post-Apocalypsewasteland, fallout, survivors, apocalypse, collapse
- sci-fi warsspace war, alien invasion, time war, invasion fleet, planetary defense
- Warfare Customswar cry, battle cry, war drums, war drum, war chant
resource warreligious war
Armed conflict over faith
holy war · war of ideas · crusade · jihad · sectarian conflict
resource wartrade agreement
Pact governing international commerce
mutual aid · international cooperation · peace treaty · détente · economic alliance
resource, resources, resourced, resourceful, resourcefulness, resourcing, wars, warred, warring